Grading Overexposure

[Curious Turtle]

You might also have some luck by simply adding a CC Composite filter and setting it to Multiply and playing with the opacity. As Dave said though, if your footage is completely blown out, then there’s nothing you can do to bring it back again.

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Ben

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[Chris Wright]

One of my friends figured this out. I’m sure you can emulate the workflow he uses in his free FCP plugins.

“when an image is blown out, especially on the skin, not all color channels are necessarily over exposed. Often when the red channel is blown out, the green channel may still contain good information. This plugin lets you selectively substitute one channel for another in the over exposed areas and color correct it to match.”

Captain’s Blowout Fixer

https://pistolerapost.com/pluginz/

You could try dup the layer, subst good green for bad red with channel effects then layer over with screen, lighten, or add.

[Filip Vandueren]

Interesting, that:
https://pistolerapost2.com/viewing/captainsbof.mov

Here’s how I would do that in After Effects:

Channel -> Channel Combiner, set From: Green to: Red
(faces will becom green/greyish)

Add a second copy of the layer, with Keying->Extract, set to Red, then add White Point & Softness.
Optionally add a Channel Blur to Blur the Alpha.

Now color correct the bottom layer. Perhaps with Exposure set to multiple Channel-mode, but resist the urge to gain up: you’ll be clipping again!

Setting from Green to: ‘Luminance Only’ may sometimes give a better result.

[Daniele Marconcini]

You’re a genius man.

Thanks, thanks, thanks.