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COLOR-GRADING5 MIN READ

Diagnose Magenta Skin Drift

Use 5 Whys to diagnose a skin-tone drift before choosing the correction.

Host skin drifts magenta on every return shot, and global tint corrections are starting to desaturate the food. 5 Whys: symptom -> location -> cause -> countermeasure -> verification The common trap is to fix visible magenta with a global green push. That can neutralize one frame while poisoning food, wardrobe, and adjacent shots. Why 1 Why does the host look magenta? The skin vector rotates magenta compared with the reference host shot. The first why names the symptom with evidence instead of taste language. Why 2 Why does it rotate only on returns? Those shots are about half a…

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