Digital8 Any way to reduce banding in highlights?

[BrainRotTrash]

Hi!

I'm wondering is there is anything I might be able to do with a plugin of some sorts to reduce the banding in the blown out highlights in this video? I'm guessing it's a lost cause, but hoping there might be something out there help to reduce it a little.

Oh yeah, I'm on a mac and have Final Cut Pro X.

Thanks for any info!!

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[timtape]

Even if the lines could be removed, the clipped areas would still be clipped, with lost detail. The combination of auto exposure with a background black on the original shoot is probably the cause and is a very common error. The other error is auto exposure with a bright background, leading to underexposed people (sillhouettes).

In this case old fashioned manual exposure would have helped. Expose not for the background but the people in the shot.

[BrainRotTrash]

Thanks for the info!

Yeah.. I shot this 20+ years ago and have since learned much more about better techniques, i'm just trying to make this look the best that it can with the issues in it. Oh well!!

[timtape]

Sure, understood. Others may know whether the lines can be removed.

[latreche34]

Sometimes it is just what it is, Unless you go into the frame by frame manual restoration territory, I don't see anything wrong with preserving the footage the way it is, no one would watch that and say, jees I don't recognize that person or think that he got splashed with white paint, just embrace it as part of the footage and move on. But this is me, I don't like to script everything butchering what was part of the history of the footage and the learning mistakes that may have been made during shooting.