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Worried about some underexposed footage I shot…please help
I just shot my second music video. We filmed it on my Canon XL2. I shot it in 24p Advanced Pulldown 2.3.3.2
I am editing in FCP 5.0. We were shooting in a dark movie theatre. I was using Kino’s for my light source. They were heavily flagged to only allow a certain amount of light out.
I brought a Sony Monitor to the set this time for on set playback. I was connected to it while I was setting up. In my viewfinder the image looked a little dark..and I repeat a little. On the monitor it looked awesome.
But……
Now that I am importing the footage the two shots that we did in the one dark theatre are very very dark. I went and checked one of the other tapes and the rest of the footage is great but for some reason the first two set ups are pretty dark. Im a little worried.My question is what to you think would be the best way to salvage the footage. What would be the best way to lighten up the two shots. These are also solo shots so they are important and most likely cannot be cut.
Is this something that might be able to be brought out with levels. Or another FCP plug in.
Or is there a plug in in Motion that might help?If you have any suggestions they would be more than greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Jeff.
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Anything you do is gonna add a lot of noise and grain. The gammas will also get weird. So once you “fix” it it won’t match the other footage.
That said, try the three way color corrector. Use the auto level adjust first, then adjust the brightness of the whites, blacks and midranges. Under image control there is also a brightness and contrast filter and a gamma corrector, used together you can get some acceptable results.
One other trick I have is imported from Photoshop. Take a clip and lay it over top of itself (lay it down once on V1 and again on V2) Then take the top layer and set the composite more to “Screen”. This kind of doubles the brightness. Then you can adjust the opacity of the top layer to get the mix just right.
Good luck.
DWR
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You might know this already… maybe not. don’t judge the footage on how it looks on the computer, but on how it looks on the monitor. do a test; edit with a monitor hooked up, and it how it looks. let me know how it went.
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That’s brilliant! What a great idea. Thanks
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