Fixing overexposed footage

One of my favorite features of all Adobe products has to be blending modes.…Modes are great because they allow you to mix one footage layer with another,…with different properties and results.…Now modes are a bit complex to understand, but essentially what they do is they…create a new resulting image based upon details like luminance and saturation, of…how the two layers mix together.…When it comes to fixing exposure, blending modes are tremendously helpful. Plus…in Premiere Pro, they are real- time effect. Let's have a look.…

In this particular scene here, you see we have relatively overexposed footage.…All the details are pushing up towards the top here, and we really don't have…much going on in the lower regions or the shadows.…Now I went ahead and fixed that shot and got a better overall balance, and it's pretty easy.…What I did is use blending modes. So what you want to do in this case is…actually copy the footage from one layer to another.…So if I select this clip here, I'll just go right back to the beginning and…