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| Posted by: nasrul Sep 24 2002, 07:12 AM |
| Hi, I have this old footage where the lighting used was too bright and it washed away the details . I tried using all sorts filters from histogram, levels, and gamma but cant get the features. All it does is darken the image. So I tried by saving in bmp and use it as logo and merge the footage with the animate bmp of the footage. but failed as it gave a rather plastic looking image and did not even produce the desired enhancements. Pls help me. |
| Posted by: fccHandler Sep 24 2002, 05:11 PM |
| You might try Donald Graft's http://sauron.mordor.net/dgraft/hue.html filter. |
| Posted by: nasrul Sep 24 2002, 05:41 PM |
| Like I said it only darken the image but does not bring out the details. To describe the image I would say the light was too bright that the facial features disappear ( faceless at some point ). Tks |
| Posted by: Sarreq Teryx Sep 24 2002, 06:01 PM |
| It's extremely hard to reintroduce details into a video that aren't there to start with, there may not be a way to repair what you're talking about at all. All I can say is to get extremely creative with the filters and hope for the best. sorry I can't be more helpful than that. Have you tried the white balance filter by Jim Leonard? tends to work nicely most of the time for me, but like I said, if the details just aren't there, they just aren't there. I might also help, if your source is analog, and you still have it handy, quite abit more than post capture filtering, to re-capture the original footage after adjusting the color and gamma settings in your capture device. |