Difference squared effect on video

[Lester Mc phail]

Sorry forgot to add the link

https://vimeo.com/4374883

LesterM
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[Rick Wise]

More to the point would be a side-by-side comparison before and after. Fortunately on Vimeo there’s another video of yours that includes the same woods shot, before treatment.

Clearly the treatment enriches the shot significantly. Thanks for the idea.

Rick Wise
director of photography
and custom lighting design
Oakland, CA
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
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[Rick Wise]

Actually, can you give us a bit more information? Which composite mode did you use? Overlay?

(I presume you made the top line the parent to the bottom line.)

A somewhat similar (though actually different, and does not involve parent/child compositing) technique I find useful is to copy the rendered/color-corrected timeline to the line above; turn the top line 100% b&w, increase sharpness to “medium”; reduce the top to 25-30% level; the result then is a quite desaturated image, so I increase saturation on the bottom level to eye using the saturation slider in Color Corrector. The result controls over-exuberant highlights and adds a slightly more sharp and more nuanced picture than the original. The change is slight, but worth the effort in certain cases. Not nearly as much of a change as your method.

Rick Wise
director of photography
and custom lighting design
Oakland, CA
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.recessionvideo.net
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com

[Lester Mc phail]

Hi Rick,
Thanks, point taken, I was just fiddling with the footage,
I duplicated the video tracks, made the top layer the parent.
I used the difference squared feature on the parent composite mode, kept the video level at 100%, on the second track, I dropped the video level to roughly 77%;On the first track I added a touch of brightness/contrast.I used the enable snapping to line up each clip.
some of the original footage is here: https://vimeo.com/3992652;
tweaked clip here :https://vimeo.com/4374883

LesterM
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