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  • Captain’s blowout fixer equivalent for FCPX?

    Posted by Martin Phillips on May 5, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    Just wondered if there was an FCPX equivalent of this handy little filter which got me out of jail on a number of occasions in FCP7? It was great on those shots where the exposure was just a little bit over on (for example) a face, using the info in the Green or Blue channels to recover the shot.

    Any thoughts? Thanks.

    Eric Baldwin replied 4 weeks ago 6 Members · 11 Replies
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  • Mark Suszko

    May 5, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    I don’t know of a published plug for x, but what’s stopping you from doing it by hand? You copy the track, stack it above the original, isolate the green channel, make it monochrome, adjust contrast, then change the blend mode.

  • Martin Phillips

    May 5, 2015 at 6:16 pm

    Thanks Mark – I’ll give that a go!

  • Mark Suszko

    May 5, 2015 at 7:46 pm

    I was able to do it in 7 like that; no reason FCPX can’t do it too. Maybe make the top an adjustment layer.

  • Brett Sherman

    May 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    I made a Shadow-Highlight Motion Effect that can often pull detail out of quashed highlights by adjusting the highlight gamma. Often you need to pull down the saturation control also.

    You can download it with some other things I made here:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19546472/BrettsFX.zip

  • Martin Phillips

    May 8, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    Many thanks for these Brett – they look like they should do the job nicely!

  • Noah Klein

    May 12, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    Brett, you da man!

    Save me a bunch of time!

    Noah Klein
    Final Cut Pro Editor
    Central East NCSY

  • Brett Sherman

    May 15, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    Thanks. Another tool I use for squashed highlights is HyColour Pro: https://www.hyfx.tv/hycolourpro

    Adjusting Exposure and Highlights in HyColour can give excellent results. I find it retains a more natural character than mine often does and than extreme curve adjustments in Color Finale (which is a great plug-in by the way and my go to for almost all color adjustment). It all depends on the particular shot. Sometimes one will work better than another. Of course mine is free. 🙂

  • Kit Tyler

    March 2, 2018 at 3:13 am

    Mark posted three years ago about fixing over exposures (a la Captain’t blow out fixer) by copying the clip, stacking it, isolating the green channel and selecting a blend mode. Brilliant. Will you tell me how to isolate the green channel in FCPX

    Thanks much!

    Kit

  • Mark Suszko

    March 2, 2018 at 6:12 am

    Hmmm… I’m not in front of my FCPX right now. How about you make a duplicate track, and in the color correction controls, you move all the pucks for mids, blacks, whites to green, then drop the saturation to nothing. Play with the pucks /wheels some more until TLAR. Now composite that track and play with blend modes and opacity. If it works, come back and let me know.

  • Kit Tyler

    March 2, 2018 at 5:01 pm

    Mark,
    Thanks for your reply. Yup – good idea. I did that with some benefit, but as you know FCPX’s color correction controls are not exact for this kind of thing. I was hoping there was a way to select the green or the blue channels precisely – much like it is possible to view the different channels separately via the drop down menu of the monitor. If it’s possible to view the separate channels, isn’t it logical it would be possible to isolate different channels? Thanks again for your better advice!
    Kit

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