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  how to “equalize” 16bit footage AE

  Posted by Jovan Strel on June 3, 2013 at 9:16 pm

  This footage i am working with has considerable problems with light flickering – and i am going back and forth with equalize and some flicker removal effects. The thing is equalize gives me great overall colors BUT i get weird banding issues, it’s 8 bit only effect.

  the footage consists of a character that is in focus and a huge sunlit window in the back. There is no studio lightning, character is lit only by bounce light from the window.
  The footage is badly shot, and re-shooting is not a option.
  + i have to do some MASSIVE color correction, almost to a point of sky blue light

  That huge window in the shot would normally be a massive hotspot blackhole but with equalize the brightness gets dulled and overall it looks fine.

  Is there any effect/combination of effects that works similar to an equalize effect? (i tried combining some effects but those whitespots are giving me a headache). I know that situation is hopeless, but i agreed to help out a friend before seeing actual footage, and now i am counting the ways i would like to twist his neck 😀

  huge thanks for any suggestions
  footage was taken with a nikon d2000

  Jovan Strel replied 12 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tero Ahlfors

  June 4, 2013 at 3:57 am

  Try the Color Stabilizer effect.
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  Jovan Strel

  June 16, 2013 at 12:51 pm

  thanks, but i didn’t do the trick – with it applied the footage showed even more flickering, i did adjust its settings
  in the end i stayed with equalizer, i’ve only switched the ordering of the effects and it brought the level of banding to a somewhat minimal level

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