How to fix blown out background?

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DVX100Shooter

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I recently shot a Celebrity softball game and I have a clip of video where the person I am interviewing is exposed pretty good but the 2 guys standing right behind them with white t-shirts seem to be really bright (their shirts). The background including the clear blue sky is really over exposed as well. It almost looks overcast in that screen grab but in other clips everything looks nice. I had my zebra bars on, on the camera. I was shooting inside of baseball stadium that had spots where it was shade and other spots of the field where it was bright. The sun was behind me in this screen grab shot. I have been fooling around with CC trying to get a happy balance but having a hard time. I am going to include a screen grab so you can see what I am talking about below. So basically I want to try to tone down the brightness of the background but keeping the talent exposed correctly. I have my scopes up and have been monitoring the levels as I go. I selected broadcast safe as a filter along with the CC 3 way filter.


http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h281/purnc1906/kylepic.jpg


Your thoughts?
 
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broadcast safe is just going to further clip your highlights, could make it look worse if set too aggressively. not that there is really anything you can do about this. everything you described as "bright" is really just flat white because all the detail in that area has been lost. you could pull back on the white level but that's just going to turn it from white to gray.

my advice? take it on the chin and move on.
 
cygnet74 said:
my advice? take it on the chin and move on.
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Agreed. You've lost ALL detail back there, and there's no bringing it back. Now if you wanted to spend a LOT of time keying or something, you might be able to do something with it, but I highly doubt it's worth it.
 
It's an involved process, but works, and will bring out details most editors swear are missing in those whites.

PM me.
 
Too involved, I have no desire to spend that much time composing a forum post. Sorry. There is a tutorial in the APTS book Advanced Color Correction and Effects in FCP that does this.
 
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