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Filter to recover “lost” highlights
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I’m back from a bit of vacationing and had some time to work with your latest wizardry.
The latest additions make this project even more useful. Even better, working through your project gives me many new ideas about how to better use AE.
Many thanks for taking the time to provide this.
Jim
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Hi again, good news, I managed to squeeze a few more gigawatts out of the blow out fixer by add a new slider. Here’s the update…
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=7T8L00DR
https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/
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OK, I set it at 1.21 jigawatts (as instructed by Doc Brown) but now my PC seems to be time-traveling in a DeLorean. 😉
Thanks, Chris. Looks good – I’ll have to play with this on Tuesday afternoon when I have a bit more time.
Jim
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this is another way to do it…
have you ever wished that it was easy to fix your blown out footage with missing highlights and/or dark shadows were fixed with a single click. Now they are. You can even tweak your footage to look like HDR in a few seconds even if you don’t own 2 cameras and a beam splitter.
AE CS3 HDR and highlight recovery.ffx
https://www.mediafire.com/?0bj2qpb6368rg1ohttps://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/
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Shadow/highlight has become one of my most-used effects, particularly for low-light or contrasty lighting, and for footage from low-cost camcorders.
It still seems like I can still get a bit more detail by converting the footage to a RAW image sequence, but shadow-highlight works pretty well for most of the stuff I get.
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I appreciate your feedback. I wrote a new project that is 10x better than my last one and I believe 2x the restore capability of RAW.
ae cs3 aep highlight restore
https://www.mediafire.com/?56nsdsjbnkw2jlzhttps://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/
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When I first started using AE to improve consumer-grade footage, I took it as a personal challenge to see “how much better can I make this.”
I’ve learned some tricks over the last few years and developed a few techniques of my own. I tell folks that I can never make your footage look like it was shot with a high-end camera on a well-lit set, but I can make it look better – sometimes a LOT better.
The latest incarnation of your highlight recovery project is simply amazing. I haven’t done an A-B comparison, but it does look like you have exceeded the recovery capabilities of RAW. It will take me a while to work my way through your project to see what is going on in there.
Great work…. and thanks!
JIM
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added improved shadow restore built in so you can turn a cave into daylight.
ae cs3 aep
https://www.mediafire.com/?o5724wvxd07mkv7https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/
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Dear Chris, are these templates and everything you made, still available? please pm or email at christodoulidesd@gmail.com, thank you very much in advance!
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Hi. Just wondering if anyone still has the script. Perhaps if you could email it to me. Cheers.
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