Increasing Video Brightness

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Vic

Can anyone help me increase the brightness of a video. I
know in Adobe Photoshop and other image editing programs
you can accomplish this. Does MovieMaker2 have this
setting?
 
Vic,

Yes, one of the video effects is to increase brightness, and an effect can
be applied to a clip up to 6 times for a compound effect.

It's a well done effect, but there are no user settings that can be applied.
You get whatever brightness increase it gives you.

And there are 6 Pixelan effects for contrast - stepping it down
by -10, -30, -50 or upping it by +10, +30 or +50. The Pixelan ones are in an
add-in package.

PapaJohn
 
Hey PJ,

Two questions for ya about this. First off, and I think you've answered this
before but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere, how can I add a video
effect (specifically "Speed Up, Double" to a series of clips) and secondly, can
I apply this same video effect to the same series of clips more than once?
Currently I have some still pictures I've added to my movie (each picture is, by
the default I have set, 1/8th second in duration, resulting in 8 fps animation)
and when I add the effect I should get 16 fps (and, if I can double yet again,
32 fps at which point I believe it will become fairly smooth). Doable?

-- Chad
 
Chad,

So maybe saving it as a movie once with all clips at double speed, and then
adding the effect to the single clip, would get you there. Or skip applying
the effect to each clip, make a movie file and apply the speed up double - 3
times to get your 32 fps.

PapaJohn
 
Hi Chad,

Yes, doable - Maybe!!! Just tested using 24 pictures set to 1/8 second
duration when added to the project. The time for the movie shows as 3
seconds, what it should be.

Go to storyboard (might work in timeline too) and do Control-A to select all
clips.

Then go to the effect in the Video Effect collection, right click on it and
pick 'Add to Storyboard' - or use Control-D. It'll add the effect to each
clip and the overall timeline changed to 1.60 seconds.

With MM2 being essentially a 15 fps editing environment, adding the effect
twice more is doable, but I'm not seeing the overall time go down to 1/2 or
1/4 of the 1.60 seconds as you want.

On the other hand, when I render the movie and watch it in the Windows Media
Player, it shows an overall time of .01 seconds, so it might have worked.


PapaJohn
 
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