What I may need is a moving Beezier-curve. Yes I know I don't have that facility in SMS v12 - so I'm wondering if anyone has a fix that will do a similar job?
The Problem:-
Imagine a cornfield landscape, tall trees dotted about, some in shadow - a bright blue sky with puffy clouds. Now pan across the scene !
I set my Camcorder to (minus One) AE - so I can avoid burning-out highlights ( since the camcorder deals only with average-scenes areas.).
In Edit, I can adjust the pic to alter contrast and brightness - but using "Levels" I really don't understand the "In" and "Out" sliders - since they all seem to affect the picture - the Help explanation doesn't match what happens as I adjust the clip on the timeline and watch it in Preview window, Because of this I end only to use the "Brightness and Contrast" effect filter.
What I need is a moving Mask so the trees in shadow can be made lighter - while keeping the sky correct. It's unreasonable to expect the camcorder to do this - it does a good job - but the result is this:-
Sky too bright - but it's OK with -1AE setting.
Cornfield about right
Trees in shadow too dark.
As I see it the only solution is to apply a Mask that moves in step with the scene being panned.
Ideally using an "Inversion" of the footage itself - with it adjusted in time by Keyframe - that would really help.
The same applies to almost any scene where people move in and out of shadows, etc. Of course there are "Artistic" reason to maintain this - but having the ability to create a "moving Mask" - using a copy of the actual footage, would go some way to fixing this issue . . . . .
Any suggestions, that are within the SMS package?
Im using v112,
The Problem:-
Imagine a cornfield landscape, tall trees dotted about, some in shadow - a bright blue sky with puffy clouds. Now pan across the scene !
I set my Camcorder to (minus One) AE - so I can avoid burning-out highlights ( since the camcorder deals only with average-scenes areas.).
In Edit, I can adjust the pic to alter contrast and brightness - but using "Levels" I really don't understand the "In" and "Out" sliders - since they all seem to affect the picture - the Help explanation doesn't match what happens as I adjust the clip on the timeline and watch it in Preview window, Because of this I end only to use the "Brightness and Contrast" effect filter.
What I need is a moving Mask so the trees in shadow can be made lighter - while keeping the sky correct. It's unreasonable to expect the camcorder to do this - it does a good job - but the result is this:-
Sky too bright - but it's OK with -1AE setting.
Cornfield about right
Trees in shadow too dark.
As I see it the only solution is to apply a Mask that moves in step with the scene being panned.
Ideally using an "Inversion" of the footage itself - with it adjusted in time by Keyframe - that would really help.
The same applies to almost any scene where people move in and out of shadows, etc. Of course there are "Artistic" reason to maintain this - but having the ability to create a "moving Mask" - using a copy of the actual footage, would go some way to fixing this issue . . . . .
Any suggestions, that are within the SMS package?
Im using v112,