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Hot Video
I’ve been given a spot that was shot hot and had to be edited hot. What would be the best way (if possible) to pull down the hot spots on the left guy’s head. I’ve tried to go through some of the adjustment filters but not with much luck.
(and later the right guy’s head)
(I realize garbage in, garbage out. but was hoping I’d get a little lucky after all my fortune cookie said “lucky is comeing your way today”)
any Ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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3 Replies
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Hmm. I personally wouldn’t sweat it. TV is full of blown out footage, many times done on purpose.
However, I would try adding a levels, keep the whites where they are but darken the gamma a bit. It may help it a touch. The other option would be to go ahead and clip the whites a touch more and make it look purposeful.
But yeah, unfortunately with video, there is no more latitude left on the tape. If you clip the CCD, game over. Bringing down the whites will only make it worse by muddying it up.
That being said, I’ve seen some recipes with transfer modes to do an acceptible correction. Have to search the Cow archives for that tho.
Chris Smith
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Thanks crhis.
Jeff
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Hi,
You may want to try the following:
-Duplicate your layer 3X
-From Bottom to top:
-Original layer untouched
-Duplicate 1 with mode set to overlay to add some contrast
-Duplicate 2 with mode set to Multiply and opacity about 54% to reduce the highlights
-Duplicate 3 with mode set to Luminosity and opacity around 54% to restor details in the shadows.
Play with opacity values to taste.
I hope this may help.Salut.
Serge
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