dark footage and premiere 6.5

[bdee1]

my father in law recently recorded some footage of a friends wedding on his S-VHS camera and has asked me to edit it for him. in the past i have used pinnacle for this sort of thing but i just got pinnacle 6.5 and it doe so much more. there is one thing though that i am having a hard time with. there are some key moments in the footage where the subjects are standing in front of a window or other light source to they appear very dark. is there something i can do in pinnacle to brighten the subjects and not the light source in the background?

i tried experimenting with the gamma adjustment and it does ok but in the resulting footage the colors appear kind of washed out. is there another adjustment or trick i can use in premiere?

or is there some kind of 3rd party plugin that is used for this? or am i just out of luck?

any help would be appreciated.

[BJ_M]

mask out the back , use a Bezier Mask , then adjust the foreground ...


and/or you can use a couple layers of secondary color correction with the above


post a short clip or screen shot and i will do it or pay me and i will do the whole thing

[bdee1]

being that i am a total newbie to premiere i dont know how to do that but would like to know how - any chance you could post a link to a tutorial or some information about masking and color correction?

i get the concept of masking - basically make it so that the gamma adjustment only affects the subjects and not the background but even if i did that wouldnt the subjects still have a the washed out colors after adjusting the gamma up?

[bdee1]

anyone?

[bdee1]

hello? beuller... beuller...

is this thing on?

[BJ_M]

i dont use premiere