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You get home, load your footage, and find out it sucks!
The other day, I was walking through a park.
And this thought struck me...
What if I just shot crap?
Could I fix it?
So I lifted my camera, turned it to video mode and just started shooting.
I set nothing – no focus, no aperture, I don’t even know what the ISO was.
I got back to my studio and copied the footage into my computer.
Let’s take a look.
I’m surprised I got anything.
And sure enough, the footage was bouncy, the ISO
was too high, no ND filter on the lens, to name a few.
Actually it was better than I expected, but,
Well,
yuck.
OK.
So I’m “ordinary guy”, just got home, and my footage sucks.
Do I throw it away?
Nooooooo!
Here’s what I did, and it took me about 5 minutes.
I added the warp stabilizer and let it do its thing.
Then I added the fast color corrector, moved the black slider a bit.
Then I added a curve effect, and tweaked the colors a bit more.
Lastly, I used an unsharp mask to sharpen the footage a bit.
Let’s take a look.
Warp Stabilizer. Fast Color Corrector.
Curves. Unsharp Mask.
Voila!
Looking at these before and after shots should tell us two things.
One: If you just got done shooting and your footage sucks,
well,that DOES NOT mean all is lost.
Two: If you take the time to set up your shots correctly, then you can REALLY make them look
good in post.
I hope that helps, and, thanks for watching!