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possible overexposure in a video of my son….any way to correct?
I have adjusted the levels with three way color corrector but it appears as if I may have overexposed some of the video. (See screenshot.) What’s the best “effect” for at least attempting to see if I can limit the white areas?
Whats the best way to see if any of that information is recoverable? I attempted to mask out the white areas of his face and adjust accordingly, but even adding color, it wasnt affected, which now that I think of it…makes sense.
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I am afraid you clipped your white when shooting… meaning there is no information in that part of his face that you can recover… you can see that on your waveform… if you want to minimize that issue I would use some artistic choice to keep the attention of the viewer away from this part of the picture as much as possible… maybe go black and white? or de-saturate the whole clip? it really depends how you cut your whole sequence before and after that particular clip.
Good luck,
David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
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Hi Dave,
I’m not overly familiar with the native Adobe color correction tools as I use the Matrox version included with my MXO2. However, you should be able to reduce the damage to some degree. If you can bring down the levels for just the “Highlights”, you may get some detail back or at least reduce the brightness on the face a bit to better blend with surrounding areas.
I do a lot of weddings and parts of the white dress get blown out where there is NO detail visible, yet I can bring down the highlights and often recover some of the folds and lacing that were not there before. Not perfect, but much better! Same with dance recitals where uneven lighting can cause hot spots on peformers
Good luck with it
Jeff Pulera
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Dave, are you editing the source file or has it been transcoded?
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Ivan, now that you bring it up, it just occurred to me that I did convert the file from the *.mov file from the camera (I shot on a Canon t2i for this) to an mp4. Do you believe this may be the cause? Will the source file inherently give me more latitude as far as whites/blacks are concerned?
This all being said, I may start working on the source file on a different computer. I only did what I mentioned above to make the file more “accessible” on my laptop (does not have the best graphics card).
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[Dave Andrade] “… it just occurred to me that I did convert the file from the *.mov file from the camera (I shot on a Canon t2i for this) to an mp4. Do you believe this may be the cause? Will the source file inherently give me more latitude as far as whites/blacks are concerned?”
Sometimes YCC values will get clipped during the transcoding process. The source file should be checked in the YC and RGB Parade scopes prior to conversion. Please refer to this post and this follow-up post for more information.
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