[FFmpeg-user] Fluorescent White Balance Video Filters

[Roger]

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 07:35:22AM +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
>
>You can make your own LUT, as described in chapter 2.28 in my book.
>-- Extract one frame from your video.
>-- Insert a haldclut in a corner of the image, or use xstack to attach it to
>the side.
>-- Use the program of your choice to correct the colors in this image. When
>done, save it lossless as 16-bit PNG.
>-- Use FFmpeg to separate the haldclut from the image.
>-- Apply the LUT to the whole video.
>
>Michael

Chapter 2.27, p59;

Step 3) "The extracted image is opened in GIMP." (eg. image.png?)

Should mention the file name, else the reader has to turn back a page, eg.  
image.png?

What if the video is interlaced, the extracted image will be interlaced!



Step 4) "The color table will be opened in GIMP, selected with "Select all" and 
copied with ctrl-c."

I would imagine this color table is clut.png from Step 2?

"Select All" and "CTRL-C" is very ambiguous!  For me, this does nothing.

Oh, now I see, instructions should read, "From within Gimp, open both, 
image.png and clut.png images"; Right click on the clut.png Gimp tab, click 
"Edit Select all" and then click "Edit > Copy".  Pasting the clut.png image 
into my extracted image of the Gimp image.png tab.  Subsequently, I noticed the 
extracted image.png image is 640x480 and the 512x512, covering almost the 
entire extract image from the 640x480 video.


As far as the Windows' batch file syntax instead of using generic scripting, I 
have my "Windows Batch file to Unix/Linux Script file" glasses on.  Straining 
one eye to the sky while holding my foot also seems to help!

Here's how many other books' format commands rather than inhibiting Windows or 
Unix/Linux formats:

To extract frame 51.47 from 20220421_163910.mp4 video, saving to image.png 
file:
$ ffmpeg -ss 51.47 -i 20220421_163910.mp4 -frames 1 -y image.png

Generate an identity Hald CLUT stream with eight levels:
$ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i haldclutsrc=8 -frames 1 -pix_fmt rgb48be clut.png


Chapter 2.28 p61;
Rather than, "The above workflow can be simplified as follows:", use "Chapter 
2.27 can be condensed into a one line FFmpeg incanatation: ..."?

Instead of "Step 2: This image is now processed in GIMP", use "Step 2: Now open 
the Image_with_CLUT.png within Gimp ... "

" .. then exported with the same file name as 16-bit
PNG ... "?  This is another point of confusion.  Most readers are expecting a 
suffixed file name such as "image_with_clut-edited.png" (regardless of case), 
as using the same filename lacks clear separation of performed tasks.  For 
example, most experienced users will try performing each scripted task without 
reading the instructions.


I think I got this now, in lamens terms, just start at Chapter 2.28 when 
creating a modified CLUT, as you initially stated.

I prefer, and is likely one of the most popular edits/modifications nowadays, 
is automatic white balance or a specific white balance correction, and secondly 
likely most popular/importance option is correcting age color fading, 
brightness, etc.

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