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Global Sequence Brightness Filter
I have two finished videos and the client wants lightened versions of both because some projectors they’ll show it on are too dark and they cannot access the controls.
I thought, no problem, I saw a filter tab in the Export Media dialog. Nope, it only has Gaussian blur. This would be a great place to add global control filters. Oh well.
Then I thought the transparent video clip holding the timecode filter could globally effect the entire sequence by adding image adjustment filters. Nope, those kinds of filters are not supported on a transparent clip.
So how woould I do this?
I don’t want to add the brightness/contrast filter to 1000’s of clips individually. I’d also rather not write the entire thing out to P2 to flatten it and then add the filter to that and encode it out (I’m using the P2 format to collect my HD tiff animation sequences into something that wil play smooth and look uncompressed. P2 does that.)
Thanks,
Buck Wyckoff
Buckward Digital -
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2 ways….
1 – Nest the clips into a Nested Sequence, then apply filter(s) to that.
2 – Apply the filter(s) to one clip, adjust to the desired settings, save that as a preset. Select all clips you need to apply the filter to, and drag the preset onto the selected clips.
Should be obvious which method is easier.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
Definitely #1….
I’ve been meaning to look up nesting clips to find out what that is all about and I suspected it would be very useful. It didn’t occur to me to look at this feature for this problem.
Sounds like a winner. Thanks!
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Here’s a page with more information about nesting sequences. At the bottom of that page, in the comments, there are links to some tutorials, including a good one by Andrew Devis here on the COW.
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I would stay away from “Brightness/Contrast” and use Levels instead, using the gamma slider (the middle widget) to bring up the mid-tones.
“Brightness” just raises the blacks…and “Contrast” then tries to re-crush them.
It becomes bad news very quickly.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Thanks. I will look at this later today. I submitted a “brightened” version (set to 15 from the default 0) yesterday and yes, it does merely brighten everything, including the blacks.
I’d reather do it better.
Thanks again.
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