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RE: Reducing a clip about 2 stops with an effect?
I have some road race footage, but one shot is just too hot. It isn’t blown out, but I need to bring it down 2 stops. I also had some under exposed shots and I adjusted the gamma in the levels effect and got what I wanted. gamma isn’t working here. It is crushing the blacks and is starting to crush the reds and blues. It is really making the shot look bad.
Can I use an another effect that is in FCP? OR a combination of the levels ans some basic color correction? I am getting down to the wire and don’t have a lot of time to experiment.
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The three way is just not working for me. I am not trained in color and can’t go there right now.
MBP 2.4GHz 4MB RAM, 30″cine, MAC PRO 2.6 8 core 6GB RAM, Mbox, Neumann TLM-103, FCP HD 7. Pro Tools 8, Adobe Creative Suite, Reason 3.0, Macromedia Studio, ProAnimator, HVX200 with Firestore v4.0
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Can you post a still frame?
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I hope I can salvage this without having to throw a sepia effect on it. It is blown out pretty good.
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I really need this shot. Let me know if there is anything I can do.
Cheers.
MBP 2.4GHz 4MB RAM, 30″cine, MAC PRO 2.6 8 core 6GB RAM, Mbox, Neumann TLM-103, FCP HD 7. Pro Tools 8, Adobe Creative Suite, Reason 3.0, Macromedia Studio, ProAnimator, HVX200 with Firestore v4.0
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[Nelson May] “It is crushing the blacks and is starting to crush the reds and blues. It is really making the shot look bad.”
I’d say the shot looks pretty bad to start:)
Unfortunately all that detail is pretty much lost forever and all you can do is bring it to within broadcast specs.
There is always Captain Mench’s blow out filter but don’t expect it to work miracales. -
Important detail is totally clipped. I know you don’t have time to learn Color but just try round tripping this one shot and play with the luma curves in the Primary room. It will do a better job than the 3WAY to reduce the blown end without crushing the blacks. Also as you reduce the brightness & gamma, you need to reduce the saturation.
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[Michael Gissing] “Important detail is totally clipped.”
But no possible to know by an screen shot (8b RGB) if the clips is real.
In Color Make sure to UNCHECK the Broadcast safe filter, and use the Luma curve to try to recover the details on the Highlights, if any left.
There is a clear Blue cast.
I will try the gamma down a little and a bit of Reds-Yellows and Chroma up to bring color to the faces.
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[Rafael Amador] “I will try the gamma down a little and a bit of Reds-Yellows and Chroma up to bring color to the faces.”
I tried that with the still (which as you point out has clipped the whites @ 100%). There is a need to decrease chroma as the reds and blues oversaturate as you adjust the contrast and luma curves. The overall magenta cast does need balancing which is what I quickly did with my attached grade.
Getting skin tone, I tried an HSL key but it can’t isolate faces well enough from the blown highlights.
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