Wedding Video

[Don Bloom]

use a very soft white glow-VERY SOFT :-() I have gotten some very nice looks with the soft glow and even a bit of gaussian blur but again very low amount-just keep playing until you get the look you want.
Don

[Tevya Washburn]

I’ll second the glow thing there. I’ve actually gotten some great results for other (non-wedding) grading using two glows together, one to bring out the white highlights, then a second to kinda blur and soften them. If that makes sense.

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[Rich Stahle]

This will give you much better results for a soft look, IMO:

duplicate your video track and on the upper one set comp mode to overlay, set opacty to 40%

duplicate your track again, add gaussian blur (light) then set comp mode to screen and set opacity to 60%.

Messing w/opacity values & blur amount will vary the effect.

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