Getting rid of a horrible blue halo around my subjects in parrot film

[Steve Eisen]

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

This is the Final Cut Pro Forum.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Don Kimball]

Okay:

I guess I have committed the unpardonable sin. I have used final cut pro AND sony vegas to work with projects in the past. As a person who is rather new to editing and doing what I can to work with some less-than fantastic footage I had hoped I would be able to simply find a tool to help me and wanted to explore Final Cut’s tools and options. I am willing to use either program for assistance. I hadnt expected an adolescent unhelpful response to my question.

Very unprofessional.

Let me help you with an adult and appropriate response: It would read like this:

Thanks for your question Don, it appears that perhaps you are accessing the Sony Vegas forum as well. Please bear in mind that final cut Pro is a very different program. However if you choose to use it, here is what I would suggest. Final cut pro has some excellent tools that should help you with your project. Unlike Vegas it operates in the following manner… I would suggest you… etc.

Sincerely,

Don Kimball

New to Vegas… excited and intimidated at the same time!

[Michael Gissing]

Don, firstly did you shoot with a UV filter? Australian light can be harder and stronger and thanks to all the northern hemisphere people using CFC’s in their deodorants, we have a hole in the ozone layer that lets in lots of extra UV.

I must admit, I am not used to seeing footage with that halo in spite of being in Tasmania with the most UV. As for getting rid of it, I would try the 3WayCC in FCP using the limit effect mode. Eye dropper the blue halo and then remove a lot of saturation and even use the white balance to shift away from blue.

Richard Harrington did an excellent tutorial on using the limit effect mode of the 3WayCC.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_fixing_exposure/video-tutorial.php

hope this helps

[Don Kimball]

G’day Michael:

Yes I did indeed use an UV filter on the cam but somehow since the lighting was poor and my inadvertant use of the cams backlighting feature I ended up with the blue shadow.

The video tutorial that Richard Harrington was fantastic and I am hopeful I can somehow ressurect this footage. I also appreciated the suggested tips you offered as well. Many thanks!

By the way I loved Tazzie and obtained footage of some really rare species there. Orange-bellied parrot in the Maleleuca region for starters.

Thanks for your polite and helpful reply!

Cheers!

Don

[Michael Gissing]

[Don Kimball] “By the way I loved Tazzie and obtained footage of some really rare species there.”

Regrettably Australia and specifically Tasmania is infamous for the abundance of rare species. Glad you found the tips useful and I hope it helps to save the footage.