Hasta La Motion!

I work for a lawfirm currently, and was just handed some footage from a police dashcam. Its pretty late at night and its a very dark street. I need to correct this footage possibly degrain. I know I can’t make it perfect, but I really need to see what is going down when they step off into the shadows.

Gamma and Brightness blow it out too much, I was wondering if anyone had some nice tips. I am about to just work on possibly a single RGB channel, but the less I have to edit this footage the easier its gonna be to get the OK to use in court.

I wish i could show an example of the footage, but this is evidence after all and not sure if I can or not so I think i’m gonna play it safe Haha.

I newly installed shake on a Fedora 7 but i dont understand why everytime i click on filein , shake crashes fedroa and logs me out to login screen of Fedora 7..

if anyone know whats this going on please help me…

here’s my problem : i stabilize my shot (using stabilize node and choose stabilize) to remove shaking, then do some magic compositing, after this i put back the shaking/jitter by destabilizing it ( by copying the first stabilize node and select match). after all the magic, i end up with my shot is being reduced in quality. Everything seemed to be a bit blurry than the original.

is there anyway i can fix this?

andi~

working in 10 bit uncompressed 1080. QT 7.6. OSX 10.5.6. I confirmed I’m on 4.1.1.

about 50% of my files have digital noise on the far right side of frame. about 20 pixels in. "force 8bit" solves it. But then some files don’t have the problem. I’m doing "export to Shake" from Final Cut.

10 bit rendering is working fine.

thoughts or clues? thanks!

I dont mind some of my shots being a big shakey….that way I wouldnt have to scale my shot and loose quality….let me know