i need something to fix blown/washed out sky!

[T. Payton]

Nothing that I know of, but folks are making FCP X effects all the time. Perhaps now that you have suggested it someone could build it. The “Captain Blowout Fixer” seems like a simple filter to build in Motion. However, Motion 5 no longer has a Channel Swap filter, so it makes it a little difficult.

However, before you dive into the need for other filters, how familiar are you with the color correction in FCP X? If you are new to the app, I would recommend you check out Denver Riddle’s tutorials here:

https://www.colorgradingcentral.com/

Or you can watch them directly on Vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/26362011

Perhaps you could post some examples of before/after of blowouts you have fixed in FCP 7 with these filters and we could recommend so ways to solve your issue.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

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[Bill Davis]

Just so you realize that in digital video files, once the luminance value of a pixel gets set to 255 (full white) theres’ simply nothing there to “recover.”

If someone actually shot that sky as overexposed, the fanciest algorithm in the world won’t fix anything.

All it can do is to re-color pixels so that it “implies” a sky that wasn’t originally recorded.

Just how things work.

FWIW.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Bill Davis] “Just so you realize that in digital video files, once the luminance value of a pixel gets set to 255 (full white) theres’ simply nothing there to “recover.””

But you’ve got more than one channel to play with (three in fact) and sometimes (often) there is more information in one or other of the channels that is less clipped than the others that can usefully be harnessed to restore detail. This is the way the very clever Captains’s Blow-out Fixer works – or used to. Once Apple give us back Channel Swap in Motion 5 (don’t know where it went to) it should be reasonably easy to make this kind of filter again.

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Bill Davis]

Interesting, Simon.

I would have thought that a fundamental issue like allowing too much light to hit the photo sensor would result in a “blow out” of the luminance data in all the channels – but if there is less luminance sensitivity in an individual color channel and data that can be re-claimed and used to recover pixel luminance states, that’s very useful to know.

Thanks for taking the time to mention it.

(learning is a life long task these days – thankfully!)

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[T. Payton]

Saw these new plugins, some of them might be useful for highlight recovery:

https://www.irudis.com/Products/TonalizerVFX/DemoReel.aspx

https://www.crumplepop.com/?page_id=1539?source=idustrialrevolution

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Simon Ubsdell]

I’ve just posted a new free effect I’ve been meaning to make for a while that addresses this issue. It’s not quite the magic bullet that will fix anything (when it’s really gone, it’s really gone!) but hopefully you will be surprised at how much detail you can recover with it.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/8067

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com