[Jim Arco]

Although the text appears to be on the whiteboard, it is actually on another layer. Then, just dissolve or fade the opacity of the text layer.

Jim

[Jim Arco]

There are plugins designed for skin softening and cleanup that work by selecting the color of the targetted skin, then blurring and lowering the contrast. Beauty Box comes to mind.

Otherwise check out David Torno’s work on the Pistol Youth video for “In My Eyes.” He used After Effects together with mocha-AE to replace the faces of the Golden Girls with the face of Bradley Hanan Carter of Pistol Youth.

https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/face-replacement-with-mocha-fr/

Jim

[Jim Arco]

This is from the American television series “Scandal,” and it seems to symbolize that the audience is observing a personal, private, secret, scandalous conversation or event. Like something a spy would capture. According to various magazine and web articles, it is a practical effect.

Paraphrasing Camera Operators Society website: “The set-dresser works with the DP to get interesting things to shoot through. Glass with bevels or edges seems to work best, especially for the close-ups, and add some real texture to the shot.”

You could probably do a very similar effect using AE. A good start would be this tutorial

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/james_colin/glass.php

Jim

[Jim Arco]

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[Jim Arco]

Depending on the lighting and angles, completely removing it might be a problem.

Think of it as a fog or a haze and use techniques to minimize that: So reducing contrast, crushing the black-levels, etc might work. There is a “de-haze” function in Photoshop that might also reduce it.

Or maybe you could try to think of it as noise and use one of the noise reduction tools to reduce it.

Be sure to correct for the difference in natural lighting in winter months,. Sunlight tends to appear more blue. Shadows can look very cold.

Jim

[Jim Arco]

I think I would just split the clip “where it just goes crazy” and stabilize the un-crazy clip. You may need to manually move one of the clips so that the beginning/end match up correctly.

Jim

[Jim Arco]

Steve,

My understanding is that you either want to stretch the time of your footage, or effectively double its frame rate. You can use AE’s time-warp or time-remapping feature and play around with things like frame averaging. So you could timestretch the layer, then add timewarp the same amount.

Chris Wright has numerous postings here that involve time and frame-rate changing, such as this thread
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/979209

Do a search for his name and you’ll find lots of ideas.

Jim
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[Jim Arco]

I would tend to agree with Dave. Using the eyedropper tool in the dancing shot, all the values are 255 – there is almost no variation anywhere on the blouse (or the sky.) So there is no detail there at all.

Mostly the same with the aerial shot, but the subject is small enough that you might be able to get it to an acceptable level. Attached is a quick pass at one frame of the aerial shot that I tweaked in Photoshop using shadow/highlights and the raw filter. It still need more work, but you can get an idea of what is possible.

Jim
Colorburst Video

[Jim Arco]

Without seeing your footage or knowing how it was recorded, I would guess that the white blouse is completely overexposed.

You may want to try using shadow-highlights filter. However, it is likely that the camera exposed for the rest of the scene and the the detail in the blouse was so bright that it was beyond the upper range of the imaging sensor and cannot be recovered. That being said, there are some techniques involving multiplying and masking the image that can sometimes recover highlight data. They are complex and time-consuming – might be easier to re-shoot the footage.

Jim
Colorburst Video

[Jim Arco]

I suspect you’re not getting any responses because your link is to a zip file. Most folks don’t like to have to down load a file, and many are concerned about viruses. Then your zip contains a .web file which doesn’t play on my PC.

Can you provide a different format?

Jim