• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  improve lighting on dark footage

  Posted by Mirela Bogdan on October 15, 2008 at 9:04 am

  Hi,

  Need some advice on how to improve lighting on relatively dark footage. Is there any editing feature within final cut express that I can use to improve lighting.

  thank you

  Mirela

  Mirela Bogdan replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Simon Hustings

  October 15, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  Mirela,

  Have a look at the Color Correction filter in FCE. You may get what you need from tweaking the blacks, mids and whites sliders. Up the whites and mids to increse the overall brightness of the image and drop the blacks a little to replace some of the contrast lost from brighting the image. It’ll be trial and error to begin with, but it should help. (Usually, you should change black levels first, followed by whites and mids) I think Kenstone.net has a tutorial for CC in FCE on his website.

  Rgds,
  Simon
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  Mirela Bogdan

  October 15, 2008 at 12:50 pm

  Thank you very much Simon, that’s really great help.

  Mirela

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