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Color correction for blownout highlights
I have some footage that I shot of a talking head, basically (guy standing behind a table talking). Due to the quick nature of the shoot and equipment shortages, I wasn’t able to properly light the subject and was forced to use a lower-end prosumer camera (I bounced one light off the ceiling in a room with flourescents). I ended up with a decent picture, but with a blownout highlight area on the upper side a head with white hair and a receding hairline. Using PP2, what is the best way to bring down those highlights so they’re not so blownout looking without losing much of the rest of the brightness and color?
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Unfortunately, as you probably know, in digital, over means lost.
It will almost always appear as white no matter what you do.
You can use the levels filter to try to minimize the effect, but it may actually bring more attention to that area.
In After Effects, you could track the area and use the stamp tool to cover it up, but unless you spend a lot of time touching up, it will probably not be convincing.
Vince
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I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the amount of detail one might assume is lost in the whites of video. Only when you see the vectorscopes will you see where they may be some embedded detail.
Use the effect:
“shadows highlights”
Play with these settings and you may be able to find some detail in highlights without ruining the mid and blacks areas.
You can pull out some more detail in the blacks with this effect too. Don’t use the auto settings (default) play with the parameters.
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