Fix OVEREXPOSED Footage With These Tricks... || Final Cut Pro X (FCPX)

[@lore88824]

Super Useful!!!!

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks Lorenzo!

[@mostlymira]

That's a life saver, thank you!

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem!

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

Andrew, you have saved me!!! I recently returned from 2 and 1/2 months of shooting wildlife in Botswana and South Africa with a Canon R5C. I've owned various RED cameras but decided I'm too old to carry all that weight, especially the batteries, around and I love the new Canon RF 100-500 lens for wildlife. But I was too stupid to really get to know that camera before I left and basically learned as I went along. The footage from the first 2 weeks or so was way overexposed. After a month and a half of looking for answers as to how to fix it, I finally found you!! I seriously can not thank you enough! Let me know if you want any lion, leopard or elephant footage. It is yours for the asking.

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks so much Judy! Glad to hear this was able to help you recover the early R5C footage. Looking forward to seeing what you were able to fix (and get with it overall). 😀

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

@@andrewsaraceni you've given me the nerve to put up a before and after. I'll let you know when I get it on KZbin. Thank you!

[@LexiePhaneuf]

This was such great info for working with a shot in a pinch, thank you!!

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem, Lexie!

[@helloblueskync]

Well done. Thank you for keep it simple and easy to understand ! Can’t wait to see your others tutorials.

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks, and no problem! Definitely planning on doing more FCPX tutorials in the future.

[@user-pp5gb8xl2d]

Really appreciate this! I have footage outdoors with loads of white oversaturated sky, too much to completely correct, but helped enough to deem usable!

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem, glad that this was able to help!

[@BlackwoodMountainMan]

Excellent videos by Andrew. His videos are from a slightly different perspective and give alternate ways to use FCP. I really liked his multicam with PIP video as well but couldn’t find the comment tag. It was exactly what I needed. 👍

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks, I appreciate that!

[@EdGoPlaces]

I agree with the other commenters. I learned so much especially with the tough questions like whether to switch to Wide Gamut. I do walking videos in The Bronx New York. I tried my Osmo Pocket today and pretty much my entire video was over blown.

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks Ed, glad to hear this helped!

[@julianna_x_mundoJuliannaLawpe]

YES THANK YOU! This was such great info for working with a shot in a pinch, thank you!!

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem Julianna, glad it helped!

[@failfwrd]

Thank you man!

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem!

[@jvusa]

Thank you so much Andrew, this helps a lot.

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem, glad to hear it helped!

[@abrarhuda343]

Youre a life saver with these techniques! Especially using the Canon log Lut. Subbed.

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks Abrar, I appreciate it!

[@niceviewstudios]

Whoa, those tips are amazing!

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks Marcos, glad to know they help!

[@wedrivetheworld]

Great video new sub ,thank you. If im shooting my dji mavic pro in dLog what colourspace should I be editing in in fcp?

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks for the sub! D-Log has its own color space (D-Gamut), but it's still easiest to do a Rec.709 conversion on it like other camera log variants.

[@justcatchmyviibe]

UNDERRATED EDITING TUTORIAL! Thank you so much!🙏🏾🤧💯

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks, I appreciate that (and no problem)!

[@MR-AK]

What about if only some lights in the shot are over blown? Everything else is fine? In slog 2.

[@andrewsaraceni]

S-Log2 should already give you maximum dynamic range if you shot it correctly. You can see how far the usual exposure tools get you to recover the highlights, or if it's not too bad/distracting leave it as is. But even if it's just part of the shot, I'd do the same thing.

[@MR-AK]

@@andrewsaraceni the problem I'm having is that if I decrease highlights, all of my image gets darker. I just want to control the two lamps in the scene which are showing over blown in Luma chart

[@andrewsaraceni]

@@MR-AK You could create a color mask just around that part of the image to adjust exposure; that should leave the rest as-is.

[@MR-AK]

@@andrewsaraceni Thx! That worked like a charm. I've done the trick before but totally blanked out when it came to this scene. I will subscribe brother.!

[@andrewsaraceni]

@@MR-AK Thanks and no problem man, glad it helped!

[@rajaram1canvas]

Great saviour tip. Thanks

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem!

[@HeGoesSheGoes]

Hey Andrew, thanks for posting these tips! We had great success until we tried to bring our fixed overexposed clips back into a non-HDR project. Do you have any recommendations for using the method you described and then being able to export into an SDR project? (We only had marginal success using FCP's HDR Tools). Thanks!

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem! What camera/device were the original clips shot with? And were they in HDR or SDR to begin with? You want to make sure you make the same changes at the Library levels for the other projects, and ensure the clip changes (e.g. for LUT) still carry over.

[@HeGoesSheGoes]

@@andrewsaraceni Hi! Everything was shot SDR. We're assembling a travel video with perhaps 100 clips, 4 of which were overexposed. So we tried your method of throwing those 4 clips into a new HDR library, which really helped. However, getting those fixed clips back into our main SDR project was a bit of challenge. Changing the whole original SDR library to HDR for compatibility means all those dozens of SDR clips need to be adjusted, so it's not the best solution for us. We can live with having a few overexposed clips in our video, but we thought we'd give this method a go. Just can't seem to make it all match up.

[@HeGoesSheGoes]

Forgot to add, clips were shot on a Canon R8, but we don't shoot in log. We do use a neutral setting however as opposed to Canon's presets.

[@andrewsaraceni]

@@HeGoesSheGoes I would try taking just those corrected clips, and once fixed, export them (in a good codec, e.g. ProRes or at least H.264), and then import those newly exported clips back into the regular SDR project with all of the original footage that's fine.

[@dez5]

great video for fcp x

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks Desmond!

[@登登菲常濛]

Thank you! Helped a lot!

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem, glad it helped!

[@vpcproduction7070]

amazing.. thank you

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem!

[@redfacilities]

Love this Andrew - question, if your change your library to HDR to rescue the highlights can you then just export the final edit as red 709 HD for example?

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks! Yes, you should still be able to have your project set to Rec. 709 (even with an HDR library) so the final exports are in that color space.

[@redfacilities]

@@andrewsaraceni that is genius Andrew - thank-you!

[@user-pp5gb8xl2d]

Great question!

[@יצחק-ק5ע]

thank you very much. this is a life saver. you make it super easy

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem, glad to hear this helped!

[@cameronmorrisdrums]

Thanks Andrew!

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem!

[@Jadesfishing]

Hey good video man thanks for the tip!!

[@andrewsaraceni]

Thanks, and no problem!

[@markuskarmatschek6622]

You helped me soooo much, thank you very much - Perfect

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem, glad to know this helped you!

[@DanDylan]

thank you!

[@andrewsaraceni]

No problem!

[@TheKodakChris]

Wow you just saved my wedding footage

[@andrewsaraceni]

😅 I've been in that situation before myself, glad to know it helped!

[@Ram_srivastavaaa]

Who else came after Amulya’s storyy on Snapchat ??😂😂

[@andrewsaraceni]

Can you elaborate?