color correction

[Jon Zanone]

The hard way is to create a travelling matte, create two layers and correct each layer individually. You could use Avid, or AE, or something like that.

Another way would be to use the curves section of the CC and bring up your black levels , and bring the white levels down a bit(paying attention to your waveform and vectorscopes, of course) and see what you get.

The easy way would be to reshoot you footage.

The thing to remember is they’re just tools. Everything has limitations on what you can and can’t do.

Jon

[Carl Amoscato]

Hi Lucinda,

You don’t say what version you are running, but if you have access to the Paint Effect, you can draw a shape around the object you want to lighten and apply the effect only to that area. Kind of like secondary color correction.

If you don’t have access to the Paint Effect, then After Effects is your next best option.

good luck,
Carl

[Chris Bové]

Yeah, definitely try the paint effect. It’s become a really powerful tool.

Similar case – I had a silhouette in front of a door which I:
– lightened tremendously with color correction
– drew around the subject and filled it in with 75% opaque black (feathered)
– I used keyframes throughout the shot to do a garbage-traveling-matte grainy-coverer-upper

It looked only so-so, but the producer saw it as a better option that reshooting. So, I guess it depends on the client. Dreamworks vs. Bob’s Wedding Hut.

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