[Jack Vogel]

Actually, never mind. I just found a webtool that will do what I want.

https://www.gradient-scanner.com/

Just drop in an image file and mark where you want the gradient scanned. After that you adjust the sensitivity and it spits out the stats. I still had to type them in by hand but it is VERY accurate. The location of each color is listed by 10th of a percent and PS will only accept integers so you’ll have to round them off.

Here is a sunset (or sunrise, I’m not sure) that I ran a test on. The left side is the original JPG and the right is the gradient I was able to create.

The only adjustment I would want to make would be to tighten up a few of the Color Midpoints. If I were willing to futz with it for a while I could get it closer but considering it only took me 4 minutes to create a 15 Color Stop gradient with this much accuracy I’d judge it a success.

If anyone can find a more automated method that would be nice (something that actually spits out a gradient file), but if you need better accuracy than eyeballing it with the eyedropper tool this is pretty good.

[Jack Vogel]

Thanks for the tip.

I actually just found a work around involving another free program I already had. I ran them through Any Video Converter and just changed the format from MOV to MP4.

BAM! Suddenly the picture is back.

[Jack Vogel]

Thanks a bunch Todd. I did a bit of research on generating a black and white key mask (a term and technique I had not been taught in two semesters of digital cinematography *eye-roll*) and I found a very clear tutorial that deals with my exact problem in dealing with an over-lit green screen (also wrinkly and made of 3 different shades of green cloth, LOL).

https://youtu.be/woZflhiwJ6Y

It’s moments like these that make me more and more sure that my professor should focus on his day job of making videos rather than teaching because his method seems to be “go find a tutorial”.

Thanks again. I think this B&W masking will be a big help.

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[Jack Vogel]

I rendered another version with no luck, but I tried breaking it into four pieces (about 15 minutes each) and stringing them together on a timeline, that seems to have fixed it.

[Jack Vogel]

I don’t see how.

Neither click & drag, nor cut/copy & paste have any effect.

I’ve tried using keyboard shortcuts and the pull-down menus to copy and paste.