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Removing seeping daylight?
I’ve got a brief interior shot, that is meant to be taking place at night, but was shot in the daytime. There are blinds blocking the daylight on the windows, except along some of the blind’s edges where, the daylight is very obviously showing. The rest of the shot is mostly midtones (murky), i.e. in sharp contrast to the seeping light which appears as thin white intermitent edging.
I’d like to effectively make that white seepage dark (as if it is night outside).
Been wrestling with the 3 way color corrector and limiter without much success. I can isolate the white/soften etc, but can’t darken it enough before it looks artificial. I have also tried multiplying the filter effect.
Is there a better filter I should be using for this? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Footage is SD miniDV and using FCP 6.06
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3 Replies
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Have you tried a tight luma key? Also the HSL keyer in Color is better than the limit effect in the 3Way CC.
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And Color Corrector 3 Way is actually a very sophisticated keyer so you can easily tweak it to just matte the brightest spots. You can apply it to copy of the shot and mask out all other areas.
bogiesan
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Thanks for the replies. I’m not too experienced with keying/masking etc so apologies for ignorance.. (and for being too chicken to go into Color right now!)
I used CC3W and isolated the white, i.e. everything is black except the white.
I applied it to a copy of the shot (above untouched original in timeline).
I wasn’t sure how to ‘mask’, but through trial and error I tried right-clicking top clip and chose composite mode, then subtract.
Is this what you meant by masking? It was rough but perhaps I should tweak more?
The other big problem was that once I rendered the filter effect it went black all over, i.e. blocking clip below also.. Why is that?
Thanks
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