Is it possible to "auto-level" avi. clips?

[MartinNorway78]

Dear divers with more knowledge than me in videophotography!

I have shot some minutes with my compact photo-camera, but the image is really blue (at around 20 and below meters): when I use photoshop for my pics, I alwasy "autolevel" the colors... are there any softwares (freewares) out there that let me autolevel the colors in a small videoclip?? Aprox 50MB....??

Hopefully someone outthere knows how to do this

 

[PerroneFord]

What software are you using to edit your video?

There is not an "autolevel", but there is the opportunity to apply global, or semi-global corrections.

 

[MartinNorway78]

Hi PerroneFord!

Thx for answering, I use Windows Movie Maker to make small "movies" of photos, and sometimes I inbed small videoclips inbetween the pictures. MovieMaker lets med cut both the start and the end of the clip so I can use the part I want.

If I accidentally have held the camere in another angle, turning my wrist to get a "tall" shot, I use Vdub to rotate the videoclip to the right angle.

Other than that I use photshop... but I do have the whole CS3 package, but have no clue how to use the other programs in it...

Hope that clears my situation abit

BR
Martin

 

[Gombessa]

I don't think there's a way to do it in the base Movie Maker applet, but on a Mac, iMovie can indeed auto-level an entire clip (and adjust exposure, saturation, hue-shift, etc.) in real-time, so I imagine functionality at least as powerful must exist in Premiere. Sorry, I know this isn't entirely helpful, but take it as strong evidence that a solution does exist

 

[MartinNorway78]

Thanks G. Encouraging!
What is Premiere?

 

[PerroneFord]

What is Premiere?

You've got a long and steep learning curve ahead of you my friend. Try not to get too discouraged along the way.

 

[MartinNorway78]

Gee Perrone, thanks for your help.

I guess it depends on how far I intend to climb... I was just looking for some kind of color adjustement..like a digital underwater filter...

I'll have a look at the thread below about Premier.

 

[PerroneFord]

I know my answer seems unhelpful. And I apologize for that. But Premiere is a fairly complicated video editing tool (one I used to use) and the learning curve is steep. You can't just drop a video on it, and hit autolevels like in Photoshop. Not if you want reasonable results.

You're going to need to learn about the 3-way color corrector and some other stuff to really get decent results. It took me a couple months to start getting pro level results.

 

[MartinNorway78]

OK, I'll drop that software then, becayse that is not what I am after.... "I am after the just drag the clip and hit autolevel version"

Does it excist??

 

[PerroneFord]

OK, I'll drop that software then, becayse that is not what I am after.... "I am after the just drag the clip and hit autolevel version"

Does it excist??

It might, but I work with the other stuff because my job demands it. Perhaps other users here might be familiar with something that is more "drag and drop". Believe me, sometime I wish I had a basic "autolevels" for the stuff I am doing. If you do find one, let me know. Because I occasionally have clients for whom it really won't matter, and I'd rather not take the long time it takes me now.