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Overbrights and RED importer

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Hi all,

I have been playing around a bit with R3Ds and After Effects. On some of the shots, I have areas blowing out (in Redspace), and I want to recover them. From what I understand, I can't recover them using any color correcting tools within After Effects, as all my values are clipped at 1.0. Only way to brin them back is to go into the RED importer, lower to exposure, and then continue to work. This isn't really ideal, as I would like to use the benefits of a high dynamic range and the power of After Effects. Also a histogram is missing in the RED importer, so how do I know where to set the exposure? Is it trial and error?

One more thing, say I just want to take down my overbrights but keep the rest of my look. Usually I would do this with a levels or curve adjustment, but now I'm stuck with the exposure. So what kind of curve do I apply to get the rest of my footage back as it looked?
 
REDSpace is for quick "looks good" dailies. It's not designed as a grading starting point. For grading, I'd start with REC709 curve or REDLog.

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I agree, but wouldn't it be nice if you could use the tools of after effects to correct the images directly.

But, as most important for the current workflow, could we please get a histogram in the RED importer?
 
Simma said:
I agree, but wouldn't it be nice if you could use the tools of after effects to correct the images directly.

But, as most important for the current workflow, could we please get a histogram in the RED importer?
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Pretty please oh Gods of Adobe?
 
If a histogram could be made it would be fantastic. Would this be made by RED-team or by Adobe?
 
Ive been asking or this since the day I saw the importer, otherwise you are shooting into the dark. Use the Levels... Filter to see a quick histogram

Do try a software called Test gear, its gives you histograms and waveforms so you can at least go in and out of the importer to check where your levels are in After Effects.
 
Any comment from RED about this? I do understand that the overbrights won't happen over night, but wouldn't it be possible to get the histogram?
 
SimonBjork said:
Any comment from RED about this? I do understand that the overbrights won't happen over night, but wouldn't it be possible to get the histogram?
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Overbrights is a pretty major change to the code but it should happen at some point.

I'm not sure if histogram will be possible or not. We'll look into it.
 
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