Filter to recover “lost” highlights

[Chris Wright]

ae cs5.5 blowout fixer will repair blow out sky and dark in 32bpc and now supports 8bit video in soft and vivid modes
https://f1.creativecow.net/6445/6445

dv to film has an edge blur feature taken from dct repair. you can unselect the texture, color, grain layers.

https://f1.creativecow.net/8107/free-convert-dv-to-film-with-slider-controls

[Anmol Mishra]

I downloaded it. Do i just replace the jpg with the video file? I tried adding a file to final comp but nothing happened. Many thanks

[Chris Wright]

in almost all my templates, you have to replace the media/footage/video file with your own. That’s because it itself is used to “do stuff”.

Also the aspect ratio, comp size may not match your own, so you might need to run a jsx script to update composition parameters.

trust me, If I made .aex files, it would be fully automatic. I just don’t have time.

[Matt Young]

Apologies if I’m overlooking something obvious:

Chris, I’m trying to use your template to remove some unfortunate glare off a bald head. I’ve replaced the .jpg in your project with my video file and then resized all the compositions in the project to match that video file. However, I’m not seeing any changes in the “final” composition, but I am seeing an expression error in the “unsharp precomp” composition which reads:

“layer named ‘Local Contrast Inhibitor’ is missing or does not exist. It may have been renamed, moved…” etc.

I haven’t renamed, moved, deleted any layers in the template. Do you have any suggestions for fixing this expression?

Many thanks.