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Sunlight too bright
I shot my first music video last week got home and noticed most of the clips are just too bright due to the sunlight what can i do to recitfy thisas the subject is barely visble
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Hi Olisa,
Unfortunately, in digital video, the video data that’s over exposed is usually lost.
You can try to recover some by applying the levels filter and bring up the black input level / lower the white output.
I would suggest looking into zebra settings on your camera on your next shoot, that will indicate parts of the picture that are overexposed, something that most viewfinders are useless for.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Reshoot.
Seriously. I had a guy ask me to “fix” his wedding video, which was so blown out that when I dropped the levels, it all just went gray instead of white. There was nothing I could do to put back what had been eliminated in the previous step.
(And I would normally never touch a wedding video anyway, this was kind of a favor.)
Clipping eliminates the detail data rather nastily in digital video.
And Vince’s zebra setting suggestion is bang-on. Set it to 80 and place your skin tone highlights there.
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You are lucky that this is a music video, because with a music video you can get away with strange looking footage. Make a virtue of a mistake, go for a stylized look. I would play with color correcting, add lots of contast, de-saturate or over saturate. Whites can look a lot more pleasing if you add filters, colored grad filters for the wide shots and maybe a sepia tone overall.
Stephen Eckelberry
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Thank you
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also what specs do i need for a powerful pc system that could handle HD videos and large tasks i need to buy one preferably under £500 can someone recommend im gna need it for uni in september
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I’m a mac guy who spent way too much money on my system, so I can’t help you. However, there are several post here on this very subject and on the Adobe forum: https://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere
The problem is how to find the thread. I searched for “system” and came up with this, but it’s an old post:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/1719249#1719249
500 quid is not a lot, but with student discounts you could get lucky. Ask a gamer friend for a good cheap computer, gaming computers tend to have similar requirements to editing computers (we need more HD space though), and gamers I know tend to obsess on systems and know the best deals on the net. Then before you buy, vet the system on this or Adobe’s forum and see what the experts think.Stephen Eckelberry
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