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Enhancing with plugins

Enhancing with plugins

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Enhancing with plugins

Robbie Carman: So Rich, in previous movies, we took a look at using the NLE. Rich Harrington: Yeah. Robbie Carman: To do some color correction on this this back-lit scene. We jumped over to Adobe SpeedGrade but really it could have been any dedicated color tool. Now in this movie, we're going to talk about using a tool I don't think a lot of people would think of for fixing shots like this, and that's using Adobe After Effects. Rich Harrington: Yeah and After Effects has its own tools where we can relight or you can actually use third party plugins, and so we'll do 2 things. I'll show you something that's After Effects specific. And then I'll show you some plugins that work over in any NLE, including Final Cut 10, Avid, etc. Robbie Carman: Cool. Rich Harrington: So let's start with something After Effects specific, which is we can actually add a light. And we could add ambient light to this scene. Let's just reset that, so it goes back to a white color. But what I'll do is I'll lower…

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