Increasing Video Brightness

[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?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

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

 

[Chad C. Mulligan]

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

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

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

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

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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