Assistance Requested in Correcting Blow-out of Highlights

[Blast1]

[jkb242] “using the fast color and/or contrast/brightness effects works on the entire frame, not the portion that needs correction.”

Try to see if using the level controls will affect the blownout areas, disregard the areas that have usuable data, the idea is to see if anything is there to salvage in the over exposed areas, save you time in the long run. usually blownout areas are just that, blownout, then just work with what you’ve got, or reshoot, its always best to compensate for hot areas when shooting as underexposed areas can be compensated for in post with a much better chance of recovery.

[Mike Velte]

The Shadsows/Highlight effect allows for lowering the luminance of just the highlights.

[Jerry Black]

Mike,

I was unable to find a Shadow/Highlights effect that you suggested. I would like to try this but is this effect part of or under another one? Could you please clear this up for me?

Thanks

[Blast1]

Try looking under adjust in video effects

[Scot Sheely]

JKB,

As a general FYI, any effect you want to search for quickly can be done by going to your effects tab and typing in the first few letters or words in that white space at the top.

That is a dynamic search tool that is available in both PPRO and AE, and has been around for a while (older versions as well as new).

I agree, Shadow/Highlight is a valuable tool to learn. It is identical to the one found in Photoshop. Be advised that the Shadow slider brightens, and the Highlight slider darkens, which is the opposite of what you would expect.

Modest adjustments can work miracles on blown-out details, especially when used in conjunction with the brightness/contrast filter.

Scot

[Blast1]

The only thing it can’t do is retreive information thats in a saturated area, you can use it to make the overexposed area less obtrusive.

[Dave Baldwin]

Jeff Schell has some great video tutorials on DMN.net

These should help you maximize what you have.

https://podcasts.digitalmediaonlineinc.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=175818

https://podcasts.digitalmediaonlineinc.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=178153

https://podcasts.digitalmediaonlineinc.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=180784

The first tutorial is the one that really opened my eyes to some awesome new and unexplored features of CS3.

Hope this helps,
db

[Jerry Black]

Mike,

I searched and found the Shadow/Highlights effect which had a great deal of effect on eliminating the blowout and worked quite well. Thanks for this valuable suggestion.