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How to boost some light on poorly lit video
I was wondering if there is a built in filter or 3rd party one that can boot the lighting in a video that was shot in poorly lit place and people’s faces are a little dark. Like a wedding hall that had poor lighting and there was no backup lights when filming.
I was thinking to play around with the highlights, midtones and shadows like I would in photoshop. Does anyone have good suggestions?
Thank you
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8 Replies
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Post a frame so we can see how bad it is.
– Derrick
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Here are 2 frames from a video:
https://gat101.co.il/pic1.jpg
https://gat101.co.il/pic1.jpg1. Don’t mind the quality. Just focus on the lighting.
2. My question is not about this video in particular. I want to film in the future but have no backup light so I was wondering if I can tweak some light in After Effects or Premiere Pro.
3. Notice in pic1, there is light in the backround and her face is dark.
4. Notice in pic2, the whole thing is dark.Thank you. (again… I’m not looking for a solution just for these frames. I’m asking in general for all videos. Not photos.)
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The exposure effect would be a place to start,
Or try to master using levels or curves.
Adding two copies of the same layer to each other (using screen, or Add layer mode) works too, you can also desaturate the top-layer and see how that works.It depends if you just want your video, but a bit more decent, or if you want to colorgrade to achieve a certain look.
there’s also an effect called “Shadow/highlight” ported from Photoshop: it will brighten the shadows without blowing out the whites or vice-versa.
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Maybe you could also try the shadow/highlights filter.
– Derrick
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Thanks for the reply. Actually, I had tried using layer adjustment and curve adjustment for this particular movie, but the scenes changed so much, although I didn’t have to make changes to each frame… there was a lot of cutting and reaplying to do on too many clips. I thought maybe there was a plugin that could detect an initial setting and try to “guess” for the remainder of the video. (That would be a million dollar plugin!)
The built in exposures are pretty limited to presets (maybe I missed something) and I wasn’t too successful with that.
Anyhow, I’ll have to do my best. Thanks again!
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I just noticed that I didn’t post the second picture!
Here’s the second one:
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There are a few auto plugins that correspond to Photoshop’s Easy Auto fixes:
Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Color.
They Basically clip to the maximum black and whites, so they coulod give a lot of flicker: you can set a number of frames to average out, and it has a scene detect so it won’t average around a cut.
do not expect miracles though, colour correction is serious business, and is performed an a shot to shot basis.
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Found the “three way color correcter” in premiere pro. It’s just amazing. Able to touch up just about everything.
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