Digital8 Any way to reduce banding in highlights?
 

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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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.

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!!

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

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.