Treating HOT SPOTS ?

[David Bogie]

You can attempt to create masks or use keying filters to selectively apply luminance reduction and additional processing to the images but, unfortunately, if the pixels are blown out, there is little or no hope of reconstructing the missing data.

Some proprietary raw processors, including Nikon and Adobe, are capable of analyzing the RGB channels separately, extrapolating and rebuilding missing pixels by analyzing data that may remain in one or more of the other channels. Similar products might exist as third party processing but you would want to have the original footage.

In most such cases, the footage must be reshot or the director must find a way to rethink the sytle of his production to compensate for lousy or incompetent photographers.

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