How Do You "De-Saturate" White in FCE?

[nyycavo24]

Working with some old, converted VHS Footage....its sports footage...so the bleeding white is really painful to look at!

What can I do? This is time sensitive.

Thanks in advance...

 

[faustfire]

Not totally sure what your trying to do, but it sounds like maybe the levels filter might help.

 

[nyycavo24]

Not totally sure what your trying to do, but it sounds like maybe the levels filter might help.

Basically whats happening is that the white color from the Jersey is "bleeding" into the black jersey number.

Secondary to that, anyone wearing white is so bright/glowing, that its hard to look at them.

I know how to "turn down" green/blue when this happens, but not white. You say play with the levels filter...any particular setting that will help to resolve this without killing the rest of the video?

If you need a screen shot to understand further, let me know.

 

[Sdashiki]

White is overexposure. There is no detail in it to "bring out".

When you were able to with other colors, they were just brighter/darker, not blown out.

 

[nyycavo24]

White is overexposure. There is no detail in it to "bring out".

When you were able to with other colors, they were just brighter/darker, not blown out.

I understand the overexposure piece...I'm not looking to "bring out" the color....I'm looking to make it less "white" or darker I suppose, without dimming out the entire screen.

I'm assuming from your answer that there is no way to do this?

As with green (the playing field) when I did this, there is no way to darken the white?

 

[Sdashiki]

Im sure you could screw with the levels. And bring the white point down a bit.

Photoshop can do it, so why cant FCE?

 

[nyycavo24]

Im sure you could screw with the levels. And bring the white point down a bit.

Photoshop can do it, so why cant FCE?

I appreciate the quick reply!

If you know of/have a suggestion for a particular filter or level control that might be able to do this, please let me know...I would greatly appreciate it!

 

[huntercr]

I understand the overexposure piece...I'm not looking to "bring out" the color....I'm looking to make it less "white" or darker I suppose, without dimming out the entire screen.

I'm assuming from your answer that there is no way to do this?

As with green (the playing field) when I did this, there is no way to darken the white?

You can do this with the limit on chroma/luma on the color corrector. ONce you have your white masked off, invert it, and dial down the brightness ( and change the hue probably too ).

It's likely going to look "wrong" if you don't do this subtly. I was able to correct this "kinda OK" from a light fixture next to a subject in one of my videos. Messing with it too much just attracted one's attention to the blowout though. Honestly, I'm not sure it was worth the effort when I did it.