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Day for night.
Hello, I have this long tracking shot at the opening of a short video I just shot. It was shot during the day, but I want to make it look like night, and also in Black and white. I tried to play around with the Day for Night pre-set in Color but the result was a joke. Does anyone have any tips for me? I will attach a link to the clip for you to get an idea of what im working with.
Also, Im hoping theres a better way to do a color transition. In the edit I already did, I have a transition going from black and white outside to Color inside. Is there a way to track the motion of the door opening in color so everything inside is in color and everything outside is black and white? Or will that still be better done in After Effects/Photoshop?
Thanks alot
Ben
Link to movie file (12mb)
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I did this search for ‘day for night’ and found a few useful tutorials for color correcting footage shot in daylight to look like it was shot at night.
There are certainly many different ways to do this.
In the tutorial by Andrew hosted here on Creative COW, the gist is that you bring the saturation down (with the Hue/Saturation effect) and then change the tone response (with the Curves effect). Andrew also adds some lights to the scene, which really helps to sell the result in a way that the Color Correction effects by themselves can’t.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Thanks for the input. I understand all the complications with trying to make this day for night, and I had thought about most of them. I unfortunately didn’t have the budget and availability to shoot at night or shoot it in a day for night fashion. I wanted to have alot more lights inside But I figured (as you mentioned) there is next to no Sky so I don’t need to make stars or a moon or change blue to black. And im not really getting hard edges. But you already said all that.
Keep in mind though that everything outside will be in black and white already. Which adds to the effect and also helps with the interior being more dimly lit than ideal. I agree with the spill from the door though. I had a hard time rotoscoping that to look acurate. I already did an edit because I was on a very tight schedual but now that the screening is done I have time to re-edit it much better. I will attach the already edited opening to give you an idea what the black and white to color effect does. You will also see how I got rid of the crew reflections (though it was crudly done).
I would obviously need some kind of lights to illuminate the parking lot. I knew it was going to be alot of work, but I was just hoping that there would be some tricks or at least guidelines to follow to get me on the right track. Im not super experienced in AE so I didn’t want to waste too much time figuring out the ropes myself if someone could point me in the right direction.
Thanks again
Ben
Here is the link to the original edit (13 MB)
https://files.me.com/bengoyert/o4yb3b.mov
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Obviously im not satisfied. If I was, I wouldn’t be asking more experienced people for their input would I?
Thanks Todd for the link, its given me a good baseline to go from.
Ben
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One of the most important things to take into consideration when doing day for night is light sources. If there are street lamps shot in the day then they likely were off, but they should be on at night, this can complicate things.
If you were lucky enough to shoot at dusk and the lights are on, then you can create a matte from those lights to hold out some of the light that they would cast on the night scene.
Darby Edelen
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Thanks alot for the input. Its starting to come together nicely. Im not even 100% sure I will do the B&W now just because the Day for night look I achieved looks pretty cool. I will keep playing with it though.
Thanks again
Ben
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