How to achieve a “Smooth Crisp White Opaque Layer” on the top of Videos

[Noah Kadner]

Boosting up the shadow levels a bit beyond 0 IRE would do the trick, maybe combine with a shape mask for a little variation.

Noah

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[Jeff Kirkland]

You could overlay a white solid, set the blend mode to ‘lighten’, ‘soft light’ or similar and play with the opacity if you wanted to mess around with an alternative way of doing but I agree with Noah – it’s all in the way grade with the examples you’ve shown.

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[Sam Norton]

Thanks for the reply Noah.

I am a newbie here esp in Final Cut Pro.

Is there a way you could teach me (like a video tutorial showing it) or if you know a video tutorial on creating the same effect?

I would appreciate if it’s possible though.

I just really need to learn how to do it and mess with it.

Thanks in advance!
Sam

[Sam Norton]

I would really appreciate even if it’s just a quick video showing it how it’s done. PLease.