auto white balance

[Chris Wright]

I really appreciate your feedback. You must have had really destroyed footage for it to trick my program. I spend a while trying to break it by ingesting 16mm, horribly underexposed video, so I’m definately going to go to archive.org to test furthur.

And sometimes the expressions disable themselves when you stop a RAM preview, because my computer is slow(I hate that!), so watch out for that in gg,exposure,finaloutput rebelcc levels,shadowhighlight.

Does the white balance and/or flicker perform worse with gamma clamping on?

And does convert to keyframes and easy ease help? That seems like a logical solution.

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[Joseph W. bourke]

Is there a CS4/CS5 version in the works? Thanks.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media

[Chris Wright]

it just uses sampleimage so it should work in cs4 and cs5. It’s still in beta, so I’m still testing.

Anyone know how to keep expressions from disabling after you RAM preview? I might have to write a script gui that turns the expressions back on. Really annoying,:/

https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/

[Chris Wright]

hitting Caps lock immediatialy after RAM preview STILL does not stop expressions from disabling themselves, but clicking on the blue ram slider seems to work.

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[Chris Wright]

here’s an update that runs 20x faster, and doesn’t disable expressions as easily which is nice now.

I tested it with some really bad 8mm color and it worked perfectly removing all flicker and balancing white. If you have some bad dark footage, the clamp needs to be set lower. If the program doesn’t work with your stuff please post 5 frames and I’ll see why it breaks my program, but hmmm, at this juncture, I can’t really improve perfection.

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[Jim Arco]

Chris,

Over the last 8-years or so, I have honed my After Effects skills quite a bit. Some folks have said I can take a blank tape and, with enough time, improve it to come out with a pretty good looking image. (OK that’s an exaggeration.)

I’ve thrown some REALLY noisy, very dark footage at your project and it handled all of it well. I’m not ready to retire completely yet because somebody is needed to ocasionally set the gamma clamp lower.

But have a beer on me for some really clever work here. It’s very close to the magic make-it-look-better button that people think is built into the software. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing your efforts. It will save ME a lot of time.

Jim

[Chris Wright]

here’s a small update that is faster and more accurate. the sweet spot seems to be where the shadow clamp is strongest which means soon that will be auto too.

I was also thinking of adding contrast matcher so that low contrast and high contrast footage would match up.

ae cs3 aep
https://www.mediafire.com/?3dtevwalcec3qmn

https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/

[Chris Wright]

fixed a clip bug and now added the ability to have people walk under trees and be auto corrected.

added.

1. auto tree mode ( I really like this one 🙂
2. auto Saturation Compensator
3. auto Midtone Contrast

ae cs3 aep
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https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/

[Chris Wright]

great news Jim, here’s a really nice gui script that enables expressions in all comps after they get disabled. It saves me a lot of time.

https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_ExprTweaker

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[Jim Arco]

OK, I’m running out of superlatives. I think this might really be the magic “make it look better” button.

I like the idea of auto-tree mode – great for the pan-past-the-window stuff I often get. Is it always on, or have I missed the switch? (Not sure if I’d ever need to have it off.)

Saturation compensation was a good addition and makes a big difference for some low-end footage where the auto-whatever circuits drop the saturation in extreme exposure conditions.

Looks like all user adjustments are in the MASTER CONTROL SLIDERS. Not sure I understand the purpose of the ‘shift channels’ and ‘channel combiner’ filters in the ‘exposure repair’ comp.

The “nit-picking complaint” department:
The gamma clamp seems a bit fussy to me – still occasionally needs tweaking for very low-light stuff.

Needs a reset-to-defaults button for when I really get the adjustments messed up.

…and it needs a smack-the-cameraman button for those really shaky shots.

jIM