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Easiest way to raise and clip black levels?
There’s got to be a way to do this more easily… for a while I have been using a little trick where i put three nodes, one to clip blacks, another with a slight soft clip on black which makes blacks irretrievable, and then another which pulls blacks up.
Anyone have a tip on an easier way (without 3 nodes) to clip and lift blacks?
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Should have specified, I want to lift/clamp blacks more than is possible by simply using the traditional soft clip.
I’m working with various 8mm and 16mm footage and frequently want to match the heavily clamped / lifted and tinted black levels of various Lo-fi transfers. I guess the 3 node method is it, just wishful thinking. I guess I could achieve this with curves but not ideal.
I’d love to be able to leave the age exactly as is but raise / clip the blacks up to high levels… -
You can get them pretty high by lifting the clip… there are two controls on the soft clips… clipping and softness. Raise the clip level and you can get a rather high amount of lift.
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Understood, I’m matching some 8mm film transfers with quite extreme looks and need to really pull the blacks up. Thanks for the feedback, I’ll keep on doing what I’ve been doing!
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-Nat -
Use curves.
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Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor -
Yes indeed, curves work decently for this, but it takes a little patience to create a flat toe on the curve and ride it up and down to elevate or lower the floor…
What I would really like is just soft clip but with more range to allow for more stylized looks (matching old vintage poor quality transfers).
Honestly I’ll just keep using my 3 node approach w/ a soft clip to clip and pull values out of floating point.
thanks everyone for the great suggestions.
best-
-Nat
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