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Need help with over lit key light on subject
I just finished a shoot with Julio Caesar Chavez and looking at the footage and he keep missing his mark and the backlight turned into a double key light and produced a little streak of light bleed running up his jowls. Because I had a group of clients and his entourage it was a whirl wind on my set. I corrected as much lighting on the fly as I could but I was running camera, teleprompter, correcting translation on prompter. Yeah, I know….
The footage is shot real clean and to someone that’s not video savvy they wouldn’t see it with simple color correction. My problem is the ad agency mentioned something about it on the client monitor so I need to correct before client comes in.
I’m experienced in Avid and FCP and was wondering if there’s some tricks I can do in either program to cut down the brightness of the slim streak key side but maintain other levels on footage. I have to lean towards FCP because I’m on OS 10.5 and Avid hasn’t gotten there act together yet but I have a windows OS Boot on my Quadcore and could install avid for this treatment.
Let me know if I can supply a freeze frame if I don’t make sense.
John
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If it’s blown out and there is no information there, all you can do is drop the levels on that area by masking it off and dropping the highlights on that area. I would do this in Color with a Vignette. You won’t get the detail back if it’s gone, but you can at least make it not so obnoxiously bright.
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No.. You can see some definition on his cheek.. Just real bright.. Ill check out the color program. It looks a lot like shake
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You can also try some garbage mattes in FCP by overlaying the same shot on top of itself and dropping the brightness on the layer inside the matte. use the FCP 3 Way CC Tool
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Captain’s Blowout Fixer might be what you need
https://pistolerapost.com/pluginz/index.html -
cant seem to captain blowout to work. I have it in fcp system support/ plugin folder.
Does it work with FCP 6.0.4?This seems like it will work perfectly if I can get it to read. The others that had to be installed worked and their in their own folder but none of the unzipped plugs that have to be moved will work..
JK
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