Jesse Barlow wrote:In Premiere, my color grading workflow for long interview clips to is grade the master clip vs the individual clip in the sequence. That way, all sequences featuring that interview are affected, eliminating the need to grade each individual clip and allowing for a single change to affect all instances of the clip.
The problem with that for me is that sometimes, you don't want the interview to precisely match the way it looked 10 minutes or 20 minutes earlier for simple reason that the shots immediately before and after the interview shot may be radically different. I always want the flexibility to make subtle changes when necessary, and I treat each interview shot as an individual moment. I just use stills to match and move on with life. 90% of the time, I will use the original correction but this won't work if the DP made a lighting or exposure adjustment, or if a background window suddenly blows out, or if anything changes.
I just grab Mr. A in a memory still, Miss B in a different memory still, Mr. & Mrs. C in another memory still, and so on, and just bang through the whole thing that way. And then I watch the whole thing from the top and make changes where necessary. The Lightbox helps a lot. You can make an argument for C-mode viewing, putting all the identical shots in order, but again, I have to grade in context.