Fix OVEREXPOSED Footage With These Tricks... || Final Cut Pro X (FCPX)
What are some tricks and techniques you can use to recover overexposed footage? Though many video shooters are at least vaguely familiar with using tools like exposure sliders and color wheels to bring back blown out highlights and generally overexposed shots, this might not always be sufficient. There can be cases where - unlike log or RAW with an abundance of dynamic range to allow for grading your shot - footage was captured instead in a picture profile that possesses less dynamic range, and/or contains less information in the highlights to recover. This was particularly true for a recent rock school-like concert I shot where I needed to recover overexposed clips. Specifically, this footage was captured on my Sony a7S III in the Movie gamma and color gamut in some difficult lighting situations. Thus, simply adjusting exposure in your non-linear editor (NLE) might not be enough to recover your shots in some situations.
In this Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) tutorial, I'll go over some less common tricks and techniques I used for these shots to correct their overexposure and recover them. This includes adjusting the color space of the Library beyond Rec. 709 to Rec. 2020 (Standard to Wide Gamut HDR) and applying LUTs designed for Log (e.g. Canon Log) to additionally push the color in a more dramatic direction prior to adjusting exposure. In the end, these less-common techniques can open up additional information to assist in color grading, and can manipulate the image in a way to bring things closer to where they need to be once recovered.
Though this video is focused around how to apply these techniques within Final Cut Pro X, and is demonstrated using that software, you'll find the same rules/principles can be likely applied in other editors (Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve) as well to achieve the same look.
If you like tips and tricks videos like this one, and/or content centered around editing and Final Cut Pro X, let me know in the comments and I will definitely try to make more!
0:00 - Introduction, going beyond the basics of recovering exposure...
0:51 - Example clips, context for this example
2:13 - Analyzing the footage
2:51 - Using Color Boards to correct exposure
4:02 - Changing the FCPX Library color space
5:36 - Applying a LUT to further push color
7:05 - Adjusting exposure after the color space and LUT changes
8:09 - FInal exposure changes applied
8:45 - Applying corrections to other clips
9:24 - Summary of corrections and takeaways
10:39 - Conclusion
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Super Useful!!!!
@andrewsaraceni
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Lorenzo!
That's a life saver, thank you!
@andrewsaraceni
6 ай бұрын
No problem!
Andrew, you have saved me!!! I recently returned from 2 and 1/2 months of shooting wildlife in Botswana and South Africa with a Canon R5C. I've owned various RED cameras but decided I'm too old to carry all that weight, especially the batteries, around and I love the new Canon RF 100-500 lens for wildlife. But I was too stupid to really get to know that camera before I left and basically learned as I went along. The footage from the first 2 weeks or so was way overexposed. After a month and a half of looking for answers as to how to fix it, I finally found you!! I seriously can not thank you enough! Let me know if you want any lion, leopard or elephant footage. It is yours for the asking.
@andrewsaraceni
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Judy! Glad to hear this was able to help you recover the early R5C footage. Looking forward to seeing what you were able to fix (and get with it overall). 😀
@JudyLehmbergEpicNature
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewsaraceni you've given me the nerve to put up a before and after. I'll let you know when I get it on KZread. Thank you!
This was such great info for working with a shot in a pinch, thank you!!
@andrewsaraceni
Жыл бұрын
No problem, Lexie!
Well done. Thank you for keep it simple and easy to understand ! Can’t wait to see your others tutorials.
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, and no problem! Definitely planning on doing more FCPX tutorials in the future.
Really appreciate this! I have footage outdoors with loads of white oversaturated sky, too much to completely correct, but helped enough to deem usable!
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
No problem, glad that this was able to help!
I agree with the other commenters. I learned so much especially with the tough questions like whether to switch to Wide Gamut. I do walking videos in The Bronx New York. I tried my Osmo Pocket today and pretty much my entire video was over blown.
@andrewsaraceni
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Ed, glad to hear this helped!
Thank you man!
@andrewsaraceni
Жыл бұрын
No problem!
Excellent videos by Andrew. His videos are from a slightly different perspective and give alternate ways to use FCP. I really liked his multicam with PIP video as well but couldn’t find the comment tag. It was exactly what I needed. 👍
@andrewsaraceni
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Thank you so much Andrew, this helps a lot.
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
No problem, glad to hear it helped!
UNDERRATED EDITING TUTORIAL! Thank you so much!🙏🏾🤧💯
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I appreciate that (and no problem)!
YES THANK YOU! This was such great info for working with a shot in a pinch, thank you!!
@andrewsaraceni
Жыл бұрын
No problem Julianna, glad it helped!
amazing.. thank you
@andrewsaraceni
5 ай бұрын
No problem!
Youre a life saver with these techniques! Especially using the Canon log Lut. Subbed.
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Abrar, I appreciate it!
Whoa, those tips are amazing!
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Marcos, glad to know they help!
Great saviour tip. Thanks
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
No problem!
great video for fcp x
@andrewsaraceni
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Desmond!
Thank you! Helped a lot!
@andrewsaraceni
Жыл бұрын
No problem, glad it helped!
thank you very much. this is a life saver. you make it super easy
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
No problem, glad to hear this helped!
Love this Andrew - question, if your change your library to HDR to rescue the highlights can you then just export the final edit as red 709 HD for example?
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yes, you should still be able to have your project set to Rec. 709 (even with an HDR library) so the final exports are in that color space.
@redfacilities
2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewsaraceni that is genius Andrew - thank-you!
@user-pp5gb8xl2d
2 жыл бұрын
Great question!
You helped me soooo much, thank you very much - Perfect
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
No problem, glad to know this helped you!
What about if only some lights in the shot are over blown? Everything else is fine? In slog 2.
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
S-Log2 should already give you maximum dynamic range if you shot it correctly. You can see how far the usual exposure tools get you to recover the highlights, or if it's not too bad/distracting leave it as is. But even if it's just part of the shot, I'd do the same thing.
@MR-AK
2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewsaraceni the problem I'm having is that if I decrease highlights, all of my image gets darker. I just want to control the two lamps in the scene which are showing over blown in Luma chart
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
@@MR-AK You could create a color mask just around that part of the image to adjust exposure; that should leave the rest as-is.
@MR-AK
2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewsaraceni Thx! That worked like a charm. I've done the trick before but totally blanked out when it came to this scene. I will subscribe brother.!
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
@@MR-AK Thanks and no problem man, glad it helped!
Thanks Andrew!
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
No problem!
Hey good video man thanks for the tip!!
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, and no problem!
Wow you just saved my wedding footage
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
😅 I've been in that situation before myself, glad to know it helped!
thank you!
@andrewsaraceni
2 жыл бұрын
No problem!
Who else came after Amulya’s storyy on Snapchat ??😂😂
@andrewsaraceni
10 ай бұрын
Can you elaborate?