-auto tree mode is usually on, its the shadow plugin with clip off so it raises the exposure. it doesn’t really need to be turned off(I’ve never seen a reason to)
-I would notice saturation would get destroyed when the dark clip was raised up(probably because the camera didn’t record colors in a dark environment. same with contrast. they are relative effects(change according to exposure)
-shift and channel are obsolete that never got deleted, haha(you found the eggs!)
-if the gamma clamp is too touchy,(you can divide it by more than 10) makes it easier to work with(lemme know if that’s what you mean). I think its still manual for some things because how would you know that dark titles are what you want. I have to keyframe the slider.
-There is one thing, colored credits are way different than b/w credits(they don’t get messed up.) So, haha. I haven’t tried it but what if you put in hue/sat effect,sat=0 on the clip as a precomp, animation-convert expressions to keyframes, then remove hue/sat again.
-reset-to-defaults button, haha defaults? I don’t even know what the defaults are! put that in 10.020.0303
-shaky shots can be fixed with virtualdub’s free deshaker(fully automatic), AE’s tracker, or any 3d tracking program. and my deinterlace script(slow and can get artifacts)
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