• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Bringing out dark areas

  Posted by Sean Simms on July 15, 2011 at 3:34 am

  I was wondering how to bring about dark areas in the following piece:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRVfNJ5WWwE

  especially between 4:15 and 7:00

  I’d like to get more detail in the girl’s black dress and in the shadows……

  don’t know a lot about filters and color correction….I used the 3 way color corrector eyedropper to balance the whites and blacks but that’s all I really know….(was wondering how to use the mids eyedropper….a grey card?)

  I’m on a daedline to get this piece doen by Saturday and i cant afford to hire anyone to do color correction….

  Sean Simms replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Steve Eisen

  July 15, 2011 at 12:17 pm

  Isn’t everyone on a deadline? It takes some experimenting. You have to play around with your filters to get the look you want. Proper monitoring is crucial. There usually isn’t a quick fix. Magic Bullet Looks can offer you some different options. I’m guessing if you can’t hire a colorist, you can’t afford MB Looks.

  Steve Eisen
  Eisen Video Productions
  Vice President
  Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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  Nick Meyers

  July 15, 2011 at 1:53 pm

  my deadline precludes me from watching the 11 minute video, sorry. 😉
  BUT
  there are a couple of free filters you can get for FCP that can do a much better job of lifting dark areas than the Colour Corrector.

  one is Lyric’s Shadow Highlight:
  https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/#shadow

  the other is a curious trick i discovered
  Download the free Too Much Too Soon filers;
  https://www.mattias.nu/plugins/

  use their Diffusion filter,

  use these settings:

  Type: Uniform or Shadows (Defines what you want to lift)
  Amount = Zero (that’s no diffusion at all)
  Opacity = 100%
  Mode = Add

  this is basically like using the “Add” Composite mode on a clip layered on itself, but neatly contained in one filter.

  cheers,
  nick
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  Sean Simms

  July 15, 2011 at 11:02 pm

  thanks, I will try both filters…..

  Thanks,

  Eros Salvatore (another victim of creative cow’s “real name” policy”)

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