YouTube now offers automatic color correction and image stabilization, haven't tried it but it may be a harbinger of the future as the algorithms improve http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/03/improving-video-awesomeness-with-one.html

Yes, please upload the installation files!

Guys, send him PM.

Much more than that:

It can be a great way to level consistent color profiles from different captures. :)

That's good news! ::) I hope the development goes well. I found it to do exactly what it was set out to do and did it in spades! Integration is very very welcome.

Just starting my first tests - so far I've noticed the initial results seem to be good if the source video's white balance is as neutral as possible.

Having said that, the results are sometimes unpredictable, not always in a good way! Still need to continue testing - comparing actual film stills with moviebarcode images etc

@Brian_Siano : I can make it available through PM, but first you must agree to give feedback here. That's the price @pwc is asking! ;)

Ok guys, i've been doing some internal tests, although i need to do more testing here's what i got so far...

.Strange behaviours are due to the color noise and/or artifacts present in original image sources. My guess is to keep original as clean as possible: no color bnading, no color noise patterns, etc... (a bit blur will help on this). So, basically, a ripped bluray poor quality footage won't work most of the times.

.Same thing on target footage in order to avoid this kind of weird behaviours when possible. Any filmic noise should be post applied. Also, target footage must as FLAT as possible as well: huge differences here... pretty useless with GH2 footage for instance in my experience (...but will see...)

Regarding the feature requests: well, it would be awesome of course to be this algorithm seamless included into AE as a effect external plugin. One of the main reason for this is that i think this "trans-color" thing is useful NOT to complete the full color grade but as a very first global step (mixed weight) and to be tweaked and fully complete afterwards with some custom minor curves/effects.

That said, i'm still in awe how powerful this algorithm can be; i'm really glad with the tests done so far. Keep up this wonderful work PWC and many thanks for your efforts so far... Looking forward for any AE integration/Update.

...will keep doing more tests on this.

EDIT: About another feature request, @pwc: do you think it would be possible to be able to control the range/mask around the preservative colors (skintones, sky, custom, etc.) visually and in real time? That would be awesome as well.

Okay, I have my new graphics card (nVidia Geforce 670) and I can probably give this system a whirl. I'm very much a novice at color grading, so I hope that any feedback I have will help users at my skill level. Could someone get me a link to download the project?

any news or updates on this? i tried to download the medifire files from several post back but required a password. can't everything we need to do this but put into 1 .rar? It seems like this has a lot of scattered pieces or am I crazy? lol

I still have those files with me but not anymore on mediafire. I don't think that @pwc would object to resharing them but it would take some time to get them up again to mediafire as they include the matlab framework and take a lot of space. When I find the time I'll re-upload them.

Hi to everybody, I stopped maintaining the links on the files on mediafire as this project was a proof of concept. Installing the cumbersome Maltab environment was clearly not a long term solution. Since then I improved the algorithm but failed to find anybody having a good knowledge of plugin development in After Effects or Sony Vegas to help me bring the project to the next level. If you know anybody who does I'd appreciate it.