Argg... ideas to fix this DARK picture?

[ryan brown]

Last straw, I just fired my cameraman. Everytime I can't be on a shoot, I get the footage back, it looks like crap, and there's always an excuse.

Their excuse this time? "They shouldn't have gotten married at dusk!"

My reply? "Your f@#kin fired."

What can I do here? I know it's not going to look great, but I'd like to see what others can do with this footage. I'm working in Final Cut Studio 2, and I also have AE 7...

I've pulled out the "G-Levels", and played with curve's and gamma. I've done some other experimenting in FCP itself, but it's not looking so good. The noise just gets out of control.

Again, I'm not looking for a miracle, just the best way to save as much of this footage as I can.

Thanks gents,

-brown

p.s. I'm also posting this in the "clips" section to see if I get more hits... Sorry for the double post.

 

[gunleik]

I dunno if you send it to color, adjust exposure and use the de-noise filter.

Haven't tried it myself, just my best bet

G

 

[NoahK]

Can you post a TIF from the original version with zero correction? That looks pretty fixable with Color.

-Noah

 

[ryan brown]

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/8622/1192489375.tif

 

[NoahK]

Little tweak in Color, with more time and Graeme's denoiser it could be a lot better. Highly recommend sending out your camera-men with on-camera lights from now on. That would have been an easy shot to save and would have looked awesome.


Noah

 

[ryan brown]

Yeah... they HAD my on camera lights. That was part of my decision...

Thanks for the tweak, I'm going to mess around and see what I can do with various methods. Definitely attempting the denoiser also. Luckily that's just the last few minutes of the ceremony, and the rest looks OK (the begining was bright). They still should have thought ahead.

 

[J.R. Hudson]

It seems as simple as an exposure issue

I can go out at dusk and hit the IRIS and it lights up like a charm; firing him was a good idea