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Add Light to video in post
Hello,
I have Sony Vegas Pro 6.0 and I’m working on a corporate video. My problem is I have an interview shot outside. Unfortunately, the subject was standing in the shade and the background is sunny. As you know, this is causing the subject to be very dark. I’ve tried adjusting the gain in the color correction panel, but it’s not working out.Is it possible to single out an area of the video and just light that portion? I know I could probably mask out my subject in the Pan/Crop function and stack it on top of the original, but that would be a LOT of keyframes.
Any advice will be appreciated.
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There’s a ‘fill light’ effect in Vegas 9. Does 6 have it too?
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I didn’t see it, but if someone knows where to look or if I can add a plug-in to V6, please let me know.
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Use the cookie cutter plug in.
Have your original track with the dark face footage.
Duplicate that track and put it above it.
Take your cookie cutter plugin and probably use the circle cookie cutter shape.
Move it to where the dark face is.
Soften the edges of the cookie cutter.
Then with the secondary color tool, lighten the clip. It will lighten the cookie cutter area.
Then make that new track a parent track of the dark face track below.
Then on your top track, (cookie cutter track) make that a “multiply mask”
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Vegas 6 does not have the Fill Light. It was part of the Radiance plug-ins that Sony purchased so you can’t get them anymore. What Rogers outlines is the way to do it in post. You can’t get way from masking.
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Thanks a lot guys….I’ll give it a try.
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Hi, I just tried this on Vegas 10 but the compositing steps at the end didn’t work (it worked without them, but when I made the new track a multiply mask it stopped the child track from showing up at all)
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