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Keying/Premiere plug in? to fix overexposed background in interview
I did something rather stupid– put an interviewee in front of a window. The key light is nicely exposed, and stays nice throughout the interview, but the window behind is too bright. Sometimes it’s acceptable if the sun goes behind the clouds, but there are a few shots that go totally white.
Someone suggested a 55mm After Effects Plug in from digital film tools. I don’t own After Effects, but may have to buy it. Does anyone know of a plug in for premiere that would help me key things or do some selective saturation with the background window?
You can see frame grabs I did with the link below – “BJ” is the
original shot / “BJ1” is a title designer fix / “BJ2” is using the
Green Screen Key (darkens it a bit) / “BJ4” is where the sun gets
strong and basically clips exposure / and “BJ3” is where I try to fix that
with the title designer.https://daviddicanio.home.mindspring.com
Any thoughts would be greatly , greatly appreciated.
dave
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Luminance key?
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I might try to grab a freeze of the curtains at the best exposed point where the talent’s head exposes the most curtain area…then try the multiply keyer…but if you don’t have PPro v2…the multiply keyer doesn’t work.
…then you’ll need AE, which I’d prefer for this type of a fix anyway, personally.
As an alternative, try a track matte. Put the video directly over itself on a higher track and turn off that track (in Ppro versions earlier than 2) and then put your curtain grabbed frame on another track. Key the curtains into the overexposed areas using “luma” on the matte setting. The only thing I might wonder about on this would be if you’ll end up with curtains keyed onto his head highlight…I suspect you might.
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this happened to us a couple years ago – we wound up buying the “re-shoot” plug-in from southwest airlines!
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Don’t think we’ll try to reshoot it. I think there is a fix that’s better than traveling to reshoot it. I think the washed out shot is hopeless, unless it’s a great sound bite, but the blue curtains can be darkened a bit w/o effecting the face. I’m still reading posts on this, so hopefully there will be a fix that is reasonable. This is for a documentary, it was just one of the more important interviews. Thanks for the thoughts.
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You might have to export a sequence of stills and create a track matte in Photoshop or your image editing package of choice. Tedious, yes, but without AE, it may be your only hope.
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I ended up buying the 55mm plug in from Digital Film Tools. I was amazed at the power of those plug-ins. I never realized there were such things to fix something like this. Naturally it would have been better to get the shot right first, but this plug in made it acceptable.
The first is the original where the window, which was a nice blue with curtains, turned total white from the sun coming out stronger than when I started the interview.
https://daviddicanio.home.mindspring.com/BJ55m-orig.bmp
The second one is my fix. It looks a little dark on a computer mointor, but looks nice on my timeline monitor.
https://daviddicanio.home.mindspring.com/BJ55mm-fix.bmp
Just wanted to get back with folks.
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