On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 08:14:03 GMT, ideoteque@my-deja.com wrote:

>I have a clip where the beginning of the clip is fine in terms of
>brightness, but the end of the clip is dark needs to have the
>brightness bumped up. Is there a way to gradually increase the
>brightness so there isn't that sudden jump in brightness? I know there
>is an option in the motion settings for accelerate, which is sort of
>what I am looking for, but for the Brightness/Contrast filter. Any
>suggestions that won't cost me much?

There are two ways to do this in Premiere:
-- Set key frames within the video filter.
If the brightness change is constant over
a section of the clip, cut that section of
the clip at its ends and use "Edit" to set
the brightness/contrast values; if the
brightness change is not constant, scrub
the timeline to find the points of change,
and find these one-by-one by dragging a
new keyframe along the filter timeline until
its cursor corresponds with the timeline
cursor placed at one of these points, then
set the values desired.
-- Set up an SI track with a copy of the
part of the video you want to make changes
in (placed in sync over the original track),
apply a uniform filter to that copied
video with filter values chosen for the
worst-case situation, open the track to
show the level-controlling "rubber band",
and add and adjust points on the rubber band
to vary the mix between the original and
lightened track (use "Alt"-key scrubbing
to check your work).
BTW, the second approach is also very useful
for applying variable sharpening - it is
amazing what can be done with this! ;-)