Adobe PP CC Help - Sunlight Reduction

Gibbs · 2 Nov 2015 at 19:56

HI all,

dipping my feet with Premier Pro CC and looking for some tips on the below. I have a small segment of video that has a high sunlight exposure in one comer, I was hoping I could reduce this specific area so its not as bright, and you would then be able to see the seal swimming a little more clearly.

Any links to guide etc would be a great help folks, am sure theirs someone that has the knowledge

D.P. · 2 Nov 2015 at 20:16

TBH it looks like the highlights are well and truly blown out so i doubt there is much you could do anyway.

Spleen Sauce · 3 Nov 2015 at 07:48

Can we get a look at the histogram? You'll get a better idea of what recovery can be done then. As DP says though, from the screenshot it looks like you're borked.

teh_captain · 3 Nov 2015 at 11:18

Maybe add an adjustment layer to V2 (so you don't touch any of the source footage), then add the 3 way colour corrector and see if you can sample the highlights to tone them down a bit.

You could also increase the Tonal Range to capture more of the highlights/midtones as by default they're a bit narrow.

Gibbs · 3 Nov 2015 at 11:40

Spleen Sauce said:
Can we get a look at the histogram? You'll get a better idea of what recovery can be done then. As DP says though, from the screenshot it looks like you're borked.

I have no clue on how to do that

teh_captain said:
Maybe add an adjustment layer to V2 (so you don't touch any of the source footage), then add the 3 way color corrector and see if you can sample the highlights to tone them down a bit.

You could also increase the Tonal Range to capture more of the highlights/midtones as by default they're a bit narrow.

Will give this a bash and see what I can muster. Any adjustments made so far are on the entire screen not just the one area

Thanks all so far

teh_captain · 3 Nov 2015 at 11:50

Yeah that's cool, the adjustment layer is basically a mask over the top of the footage so any colour changes you make are applied over the top to the whole scene. It's just in case you make a change to the source footage, save it and realised you've ruined it beyond recovery.

Smeghead · 3 Nov 2015 at 13:16

This would be tricky enough to fix with a still photo shot in RAW. With a video I'd be willing to bet it's beyond repair (unless you shot the original with some kind of log profile).

SickAsAParrot · 5 Nov 2015 at 16:30

I was gonna say luma corrector effect but it's there in the list so I assume it doesn't dim the highlights as required?