[Brittany Bellamy]

Same thing happened to me with the clients. I was so surprised and disappointed because it took forever to get it looking the way I did!

I’ll keep the green screen in mind for next time. This is just for web so fingers crossed it’ll work out.

Thanks again for your input!! It’s been ‘illuminating’ 😀

[Brittany Bellamy]

Yeah the lighting was pretty low budget so it’s not been easy..

So when you say it’s all overblown, is that bad? On the Vectorscope it looks like the effect is bringing the hottest whites down from around 110 to 100. Really appreciate your response, btw!

[Brittany Bellamy]

Hi! Blending mode is Normal. All graphics have clean alpha and are from AE or are text from Premiere. Nothing is covering the graphics. The problem did persist with a garbage matte.

It does look normal after the fade finishes.. unless you play back at a low resolution in Premiere or on Youtube. Then graphics look burnt around the edges and you can see the seam where the video and white matte edges meet.

The only thing that seems to have fixed it (and it’s working perfectly so far!!) is putting the Broadcast Colors effect on the video that has its whites boosted. I think what was happening is that by boosting the whites to get the background white, I was also boosting the video’s luminance and that was bleeding through my graphics. So maybe the broadcast colors effect is limiting the luminance? It’s working and not affecting anything else in the shot so I’m pretty happy for now 🙂

[Brittany Bellamy]

If anyone stumbles upon this and needs the answer, I figured it out! The white levels were bumping the luminance up too high. I put the Broadcast Colors effect on the video and it fixed it! Now my graphics look perfect and the background is still white 🙂