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need help fixing a over lit key light on subject
I just finished a shoot with Julio Caesar Chavez and looking at the footage and he keep missing his mark and the backlight turned into a double key light and produced a little streak of light bleed running up his jowls. Because I had a group of clients and his entourage it was a whirl wind on my set. I corrected as much lighting on the fly as I could but I was running camera, teleprompter, correcting translation on prompter. Yeah, I know….
The footage is shot real clean and to someone that’s not video savvy they wouldn’t see it with simple color correction. My problem is the ad agency mentioned something about it on the client monitor so I need to correct before client comes in.
I’m experienced in Avid and FCP and was wondering if there’s some tricks I can do in either program to cut down the brightness of the slim streak key side but maintain other levels on footage.
Let me know if I can supply a freeze frame if I don’t make sense.
John
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Do post an Uncompressed freeze frame, as i have NO idea what you’re talking about.
General rules of thumb, get an RT keyer. Non-RT is better, but since you have no idea how much noise you’re introducing, you’re in for a long sit to see al the variables.
Spectramatte is great. Make mixdowns of color corrected pieces, see how the key works on that.
Otherwise, create a matte (using the Spectramatte, set it to key output) export/import, use as matte and color correct afterwards.I (mostly) like to key on an unaltered source, and fix the fill later. Having an image with alpha is easier then.
Bouke
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Bouke, I believe the OP was talking about key light (main light source on set), not chroma keying.
Apparently some elements in his frame are overexposed.
Hard to tell how to fix it, without seeing the shot, though. -
on rereading, i believe you’re right. (blush… Probably the ‘bleed’ got me.)
Should go out more, i haven’t visit a shoot for more than two years now…
Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pro’s
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