White balance

L3thalB3ard · Jan 21, 2017

Is there a way to fix the white on this without affecting the rest of the shot?

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anotherlab · Jan 21, 2017

If you have Adobe Premiere, you can use one of the blend modes (like Multiply) to reduce the overexposure. Other video editors should have something similar in functionality. You'll want to cut the video in timeline so the blend is only applied to the blown out frames.

I'm not sure how much it can help here, the start of the video is pretty blown out.

L3thalB3ard · Jan 21, 2017

Could I have used a lens?

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anotherlab · Jan 22, 2017

A ND and/or polarizing filter would have helped. If you have video editing software that will let you use LUT files, then set the video recording to D-LUT with the Sharpening, Saturation and Contrast values all lowered i.e -2 or -3. That will provide a greater dynamic range while recording. The unedited video will look dull, it will need some post processing to make the colors pop.

L3thalB3ard · Jan 22, 2017

anotherlab said:
A ND and/or polarizing filter would have helped. If you have video editing software that will let you use LUT files, then set the video recording to D-LUT with the Sharpening, Saturation and Contrast values all lowered i.e -2 or -3. That will provide a greater dynamic range while recording. The unedited video will look dull, it will need some post processing to make the colors pop.

****.. this just confirms how little I know about editing..

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matti · Jan 22, 2017

anotherlab said:
If you have Adobe Premiere, you can use one of the blend modes (like Multiply) to reduce the overexposure. Other video editors should have something similar in functionality.

Thanks for the tip. But if the footage is overexposed to all white pixels, how can any app fix it?