CGTalk - Bright White Woes

spiralof5

08-10-2009, 04:05 AM

I'll be posting this in Final Cut as well just because I think both programs might be worth a shot.

I have a video of my father skydiving. The people taking the film were amateurs and forgot not to have the exposure set on the camera to blinding white. I don't think they even know what white balance is.

So now I'm stuck, with the compressed footage that I demanded to have after the terrible video experience (the skydive was awsome.) The problem is that it is not raw footage and everything is blindingly bright. Not only is everything bright white, but my father's suit is white and the hangar is, of course, white.

Is there any hope to making the footage not so flat whilst maintaining a genuine feel to the footage?

Thanks,

Scott A. Rinehart

Mylenium

08-10-2009, 05:22 AM

No. What's not there is not there. The camera's sensor has no way of knowing what is "good" white and "bad" white, hence it are all just already clipped and quantized values. Hopeless cause... Use it or lose it.

Mylenium

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