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Reducing luminance clipping

Reducing luminance clipping - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite

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Reducing luminance clipping

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- The next imperfection I'm going to tackle is this white uniform on this player. It's looking really blown out, and kind of flat colored and posterized in through here. Let's look at it earlier in time, when we have a much closer view of this uniform, like around there. It is indeed looking rather blown out, particularly when I see how gray the video looks up on my test swatch here. So let's play around with the strength of the video in my Color channel. Now if I wanted the video to always be the exact same strength regardless, I would have put it into the Luminance channel, and have it actually broadcast this light. But I want it to interact with lights and shadows, that's why I put it in the Color channel. Now since these pants are blown out, my first thought is maybe the lights are too bright, and they're overamplifying the colors in this video. But when I look at the rest of my scene, my video wall is already rather moody and underlit. So I don't think I want to reduce the…

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