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filter for removing haze?
I had a shoot on a VERY sunny day recently and had quite a bit of haze in some of my video, especially when I had to shoot indoors. Boss provides no UV or polarizing filters for me to use, so is there some sort of Vegas filter I can apply, or maybe some sort of workaround anyone knows of? I’m still a newbie, and while my shots are getting technically better, I don’t know how to get great stuff out of my camera yet and must correct stuff in post. When I try to increase contrast to remove the haze, I get too much lost detail. I’ve tried compositing using the multiply function, and I’ve tried the mask generator with a multiply composite over the clip. Lose too much detail with the increased contrast. Am I out of luck?
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Try the Sony Color Curves and make a nice ‘S’ shaped curve. This should remove the haze and leave the detail in the mids.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thank you. I can fix the bright sunny shots, but when I tried it on one of my indoor shots the result was that it became too dark and I lost most of my details. I tried brightening it up and the result was square one: haze. Tried using it as a composite and same problem. My indoor shots were a problem because I was supposed to capture both the interior view and the outside view of the beach. The compromise is just washed out and hazy. Trying to increase the contrast, levels, anything brings out noise. I’m beginning to think it’s not fixable without a plugin or reshooting with filters (which are not in the budget).
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Can you post a link to a very short clip of the ‘haze’ problem. If not a clip, then a framegrab from the clip?
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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I used a jpg, so the image is degraded just a bit. But the problem is a hazy, washed out video, and when I try to adjust the saturation and contrast, I get nowhere. it gets brighter and more saturated, and noisy and hazy.
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Heather, Here is some color correcting with a mask applied so that I could correct the inside and outside shot separately. If the camera is locked down, this is easy. If the camera is moving, the mask would need to follow the camera movement making it a lot more difficult. You could make the outside brighter but I chose to actually lower the gain a bit to match the inside.
I can send you the Vegas Pro 9.0 veg file if you’d like.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com -
Thanks. this is what i was going for yesterday, only when i was masking, I was never quite happy with the noise levels on the rim of the hot tub to the right. This looks like a happy medium. I will just keep fiddling with it till I get it right and use only the footage that is standing still. Thanks again!
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