"Chris/Power Salad" <powersalad@powersalad.com> wrote in message

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> I called camera shots for a band promo video (club & all-occasion type

> band), they had their own guys doing camera, and the lighting done by

> the facility. On the monitor provided to me that day, everything

> looked ok, but now looking at the DV footage from one of the cameras,

> it's evident that the lighting was not right after all, and the lead

> vocalist (bald, tall n lean kinda guy) is really burned in from above,

> he basically has lightbulb head and is quite washed out (his features

> and all that). I noticed looking at this footage this morning, that

> late into the shoot (like 54 minutes of actual footage) the camera guy

> must have hit a switch for the white balance or something because

> suddenly in between 2 takes everything warms up and the balance and

> color is much better.

>

> I need to figure out some method in Vegas to correct this overbalance

> without destroying the rest of the frame (backline musicians, other

> camera shots & pans) The luminance mask smooths everything out but

> leaves it in B&W, which would look pretty good from a creative point

> of view but not what the guys in the band want (at least not unless I

> can convince them). The other camera looks fine, but cutting back and

> forth in post will reveal a huge difference...Really need to salvage

> this footage somehow, any ideas? Many thanks in advance.

It is very difficult to recover overexposed areas in video, but if I need

to darken light areas in a clip, I place black above it at low transparency

(in Premiere) - try 8%...