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You get home, load your footage, and find out it sucks!
Now what!?
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.
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!
So I'm "ordinary guy", just got home, and my footage sucks.
Do I throw it away?
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!
The other day
i went to a park
and a star struck me
with a shock
and I wanted to fix it.
So I armed my camera
and shot the star
and it died.
A solar incident occurred
And I ran home
And lived. (hehe)