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  Colour Correction (Over Exposure) – Premiere CS Pro

  Posted by Neil Smith on January 22, 2012 at 5:10 pm

  Hi all,

  I’m extremely new to the world of colour correction having only started doing it with this current christmas video project.

  In the screen grabs below you will hopefully see my problem. I have a severely over exposed shot, where I would like to take the white from the window behind down a lot – and bring some colour back to the boy.

  I started by using 3 way colour corrector to bring a little bit more colour back to the boy, but I know I can do a lot more…..I just dont know how to.

  The rest of the video has a completely different colour – as it was shot in a different location, but I guess i’m going to struggle to match that.

  Any help or general tips is greatly appreciated, and please remember – i’m new to all this.

  this image should help explain better:

  https://www.imageshack.us/photo/my-images/259/editsq.jpg/

  thank you 🙂
  Neil

  Bala Chandran replied 14 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Ann Bens

  January 22, 2012 at 5:54 pm

  White means no pixels. No pixels means no color correction.
  If you want to change just the background you need to use a mask.
  Unfortunately that is more of a job for After Effects.
  You can animate a mask in Pro but you need to use garbage matte on a white color matte (track 3), set clip in track 2 with Track Matte effect to track 3. Add a blur to the color matte for feather. Do the CC on the clip in track 1.
  Don’t know any tutorial for that except in Dutch, you need to Google.

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  Neil Smith

  January 22, 2012 at 6:11 pm

  Hi Ann,

  I’m actually in Amsterdam – but dont speak dutch! haha
  thanks anyhow 🙂
  Neil
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  Chris Tompkins

  January 22, 2012 at 8:02 pm

  Masking out that christmas video is not worth all that effort.
  You’re off to a good start. Bring down the whites, crush the blacks and bring in more red/orange to match the rest of the footage.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  Neil Smith

  January 22, 2012 at 11:43 pm

  thank you Chris.

  Neil
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  Bala Chandran

  January 23, 2012 at 2:34 am

  Have you tried this?
  1. Apply Fast Color Corrector.
  2. Auto white balance with color picker.
  3. In the INPUT LEVELS try changing the midpoint from 1.0 to any of 0.9 to 0.5 or even lower and see how much detail if any can be recovered in the highlights.
  4. Try dragging the white in OUTPUT LEVELS down from 255 and see if that helps bring out more detail in the white areas.
  4. Tweak the color further as necessary to match your normal clips.
  Hope that helps.

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