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the best method for correcting dark footage…surf video
I shot a surf video, and a lot of the footage is a bit dark, not extremeley but it definitely needs to be brought up a few stops to make it look better…
my question is what is the best way to deal with this? I could just up the brightness but the results are less than spectacular….what about gamma??
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I played around a bit with the gamma effect in Adobe Premiere and that seemed to help heaps, when the effect is applied the value is set at 10, and has no effect on the picture, so i drop it to an 8 or 9 and that makes a world of difference….is this what I should be doing?
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If the parts of the video that is dark is the interesting parts, I would look at raising the luminance of only the shadows with the Shadows and Highlight effect.
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i did try that, with the auto function, and tried to set it manually….the problem is that the footage is mostly surfing footage and it creates flickering for the most part…i’ve tried everything adjusting the temporal smoothing etc but it doesn’t get rid of the flicker….nor does flicker removal…i think its because of the way the lighting is constantly shifting with the white wash from the wave that is creating it…so it didn’t help at all.
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