How do I remove the white in this video

[RBCC]

Removing the the white haze ( I didn't know how to describe it) in the video in the picture?
John

[Selur]

Got a small video sample?

[johnmeyer]

I'm not even sure what he wants to remove. I can see some white haze, but I don't see anything which looks like a "starburst."

[RBCC]

I want to remove the white haze and keep the background and sharpen it also.

[poisondeathray]

Does it move or change shape ?

You can apply various filters/transform such as curves/contrast/ sharpen through a elliptical feathered gradient mask (or whatever "shape" your "white haze" is). You can do this in most video editors

If it moves/ changes shape, you'd have to animate the mask

Something like this - you're just combining a "darker" version by using the mask to compensate for the "haze" shape

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[RBCC]

It stays in the same place all the time. It doesn't move. What free package do you recommend to do this? John

[jagabo]

AviSynth with a similar youtube video:

LWLibavVideoSource("1958 The Young Lions.mp4") # open the video
spot = Trim(250454, 250454) # the spot on a nearly all black black frame
Overlay(last, spot, mode="subtract") # subtract the spot
ColorYUV(gain_y=250, off_y=18) # adjust the levels

top = original video frame
middle = spot on a black background
bottom = original - spot

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[Skiller]

I sometimes see people putting this haze on purpose over a video in hopes it makes algorithms (like on YouTube) unable to detect the copyright origins of the video. That plus some other butcherings of the video seem to do that trick but the result often is exactly that: butchered.

[poisondeathray]

It stays in the same place all the time. It doesn't move. What free package do you recommend to do this? John

Probably Davinci Resolve gives you the most control. Alternatives would be Natron, or Blender . They all have learning curves. But the basic approach to this sort of problem is the same for all of them with the mask

If you post the video sample requested, someone might write you a script in avisynth or vdub (gradation curves)

[jagabo]

I found the tyread where I originally posted about removing such a spot:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/378783-Removing-white-haze-from-I-would-just-say-s...-online-videos

[RBCC]

poisondeathray : Thank you very much for the help

jagabo : Which are the other Video Editors are you mentioning in "Removing "white haze" from I would just say shoot me.online videos"??
Thank you for your Help!

John

[jagabo]

Answered in that thread: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/378783-Removing-white-haze-from-I-would-just-say-s...os#post2628905

[RBCC]

@Jagabo
Where did you get the how to guide on what filters to use and their variables ,variable description, variable meaning and what they do? A programmers guide for filters? For beginners . do you make tutorial on this?

Trim(250454, 250454) is 250454 the screen dimensions

[jagabo]

@Jagabo
Where did you get the how to guide on what filters to use and their variables ,variable description, variable meaning and what they do? A programmers guide for filters? For beginners . do you make tutorial on this?

The AviSynth Wiki has basic instructions http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page See "Your first script", "Getting Started", etc.

It also has documentation of the internal filters http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Internal_filters and links to 3rd party filters http://avisynth.nl/index.php/External_filters The 3rd party filters are usually documented at the wiki or they come with .txt or .html docs.

I learned about AviSynth filtering from those references, and from posts at this site and https://forum.doom9.org/, and general web searches.

Then there's the docs for AviSynth+ http://avisynth.nl/index.php/AviSynth%2B

Trim(250454, 250454) is 250454 the screen dimensions

That creates a new single frame video with only frame 250454 only. See the docs for Trim http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Trim