• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Using Waveform and Vectorscope question…

  Posted by Aza Allen on September 25, 2009 at 2:46 am

  So I have footage that is blowing out when transferred to dvd and played on a tv…

  I have Premiere CS4 – I tried using the Broadcast Colors effects, but it was doing weird things to a guys white shirt in the video (and I noticed that it left info that was above a certain range basically just chopping out a band on the waveform)

  – so I went to the Curves effect and lowered the Master Curve on the right just a little bit and brought the waveform under the 100 mark – is that all I have to do?

  Thank you,

  Aza

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  Mark Hollis replied 16 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tim Kolb

  September 25, 2009 at 4:26 am

  Well…keep in mind that if it’s blown out when it’s shot, all that you can do is decrease the level..the detail loss will still be there.

  Yes, technically when it’s below 100 on the waveform monitor it should be in-spec.

  TimK,
  Director, Consultant
  Kolb Productions,
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  Mark Hollis

  October 5, 2009 at 6:52 pm

  You may be able to get some of the detail (that which was not totally clipped) by changing the gamma.

  Here’s my rule o’ thumb:

  80 units is white (after all, you can see specular highlights on a white thing, so they would have to be more than 80.) Bright white is 90.

  Tell Laughing Boy there to not show up in a white shirt. Ever. Yes, I know cameras today have lots of latitude but one needs to expose for skin, not shirt and you still ought to be able to see the buttons. His shirt will make him look bad. Cream looks like white and a nice blue will make him look better.

  Then double-check your camera’s exposure level. One cannot fix everything in post.

  What if there were no hypothetical questions?

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