darkening text?

[Steve Cohen]

Did you try using the Brightness & Contrast filter and adjusting the Contrast.

I don’t know what the original looks like, but that is probably what I would try first.

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[Stephen Smith]

The Levels filter is another good one, the 3-way color corrector works wonders as well. Hope this helps.

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[Peter Mackay]

If you have After Effects experience, move the shot over there, create a comp with the footage. Duplicate the layer. On the second layer use the levels effect and make the green darker. Reveal the bottom layer with a feathered mask just around the white board. You may have to roto her hand with the mask but if its just a couple of secs should be not a big deal.

[Saya Hillman]

I will try your suggestions, thanks guys!

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[Zane Barker]

[April Hill] “I have a few seconds of footage of someone writing on a dry erase board and am looking to darken the actual text she’s writing, or at least have it pop more (it’s a light green on a white dry erase board)”

April you issue is not really a darkening issue, but a color issue. I believe that your best results will come by using Apples Color program. Where you can select one color in your image (the light green marker) and then change the hue of that to make it look like any other color you choose.

This video I found on youTube shows briefly how to change just the skin tone of a person blue and leave the rest of the image normal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaIi2xjk6ok

The same thing can be done with your video, and you could change the light green to say blue or another color that is more noticeable.

Best of luck.

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[Nick Price]

Hi April,
this should be simple to do using the 3way CC. You can isolate a colour to affect using the limit effect bit at the bottom, the use mids/highs and lows to get bit more contrast.

nick

[Saya Hillman]

Eek, tried playing around with Color, that’s a beast (or at least it looks like it is to the beginner eye) – I’ll have to get more into that program at some point. Not great at AE either, but will give that a whirl.

At least I learned about the Limit Effect option in FCP through all this, never even noticed that option…

Thanks for all the suggestions guys!

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