Is there a "Shadows & Highlights" filter avialable with Premiere Pro CS5?

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Is there a "Shadows & Highlights" filter avialable with Premiere Pro CS5?

I've been playing around with Photoshop CS5 with T2i and GH1 screen shots using the Shadows and Highlights filter first before doing anything else, and what has surprised me is how much of a high dynamic range film look I can achieve with it. It really takes away from the video look and adds film like tonality to the images. I shape the gamma curve after and then adjust other settings.

I am unable to match this tonality change with any shaping of the gamma curve. I basically really want to do this for video. Does Vegas or Premiere Pro CS5 have this feature or a plug in that does?

Thanks!
 
You can always render out image sequences from your NLE and create a batch operation in PS for the shadow/highlight filter settings you want, then run your image sequence through PS and re-import that into your NLE.
 
William_Robinette said:
You can always render out image sequences from your NLE and create a batch operation in PS for the shadow/highlight filter settings you want, then run your image sequence through PS and re-import that into your NLE.
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What type of Image Sequence should I render out as and is it destructive to the picture quality? I will have to learn how to do the batch operation. Never have done that before, but sounds very interesting.

Here are some quick tests I did to change the tonality to achieve a HDR type of look (frames pulled from a paused Vimeo video using the "Print screen" function):

ORIGINAL:

hdrtoningtestbefore.jpg


AFTER:

hdrtoningtest.jpg




ORIGINAL:

hdrtoningtest2before.jpg


AFTER:

hdrtoningtest2after.jpg



These are more dramatic examples, but I'm sure everyone gets the point. hehe.
 
Or you can just use the Curve filter. It does the exact same thing. "Shadows" really only refer to the bottom end of the curve and "Highlight" is the top end. What you did there is basically just lowered the highlight cutoff so that you gain a little bit more even exposure in the highlight area.
 
Huy Vu said:
Or you can just use the Curve filter. It does the exact same thing. "Shadows" really only refer to the bottom end of the curve and "Highlight" is the top end. What you did there is basically just lowered the highlight cutoff so that you gain a little bit more even exposure in the highlight area.
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Thanks. I know that though, which is why it's odd that I couldn't get the same look.

Most of my experience is with doing the curves....and I have gotten some really great looks with it, but I swear...I could not match the tonality I got using the S&H filter first followed by the curves filter. Side by side I could tell how obvious it was. I tried lifting the shadows with a low end gamma bump (even tried raising the black level plus a gamma bump), lowering the highlights, playing around with different curves even with many points on the curve to get a similar tonality. Nothing seemed to make it equal to the S&H. It proved to be far more difficult that I anticipated. Before this I thought I was an expert with the color gamma curves for getting a great film look.

I will try again, but it seems to be a lot more work to try to get less of a result so far.
 
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