Underexposure correction

[Shane Ross]

Boost the highlights and if the background starts to get grey, then crush back down the blacks. Resolve would give you much better results, but it’s doable in Premiere. Not sure you’d be able to get it to match that other shot without quite a bit of grain, but possible. Again, Resolve will be far better at this.

Shane
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[Chris Wright]

a really good trick you can do is use transfer modes.
make 3 adjustment layers in a sandwich and set their transfer modes to the following:
1. normal
2. multiply
3. normal

on all 3 layers, use curves and raise the midtones up. don’t touch the black. this will then use 32bpc effects to make a nice image. if there is any noise left, neatvideo can remove it. I did a quick test and it came out well. Make sure you have enable max bit depth if you don’t have gpu processing enabled too. This is way higher quality than shadow highlight plugins as you’re in 32bpc not 16bpc.

[Jon Doughtie]

Chris, next time I have an issue I am so stealing that.

I’ll give you credit the first three times. 😉

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[Jon Cheney]

I tried boosting the midtones in each one, but I ended up boosting the highlights as well, just because it was still too dark. This looks like a nifty solution but I’m not sure i’m doing it right. Can you attach a screenshot of what your technique looks like on my image? Thanks for the help.

[Chris Wright]

here’s my screenshot. each layer above is an adjustment layer they each have a lumetri curve with same curve shown.