Repairing and Enhancing Video

Course details

Nonlinear editors like Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro aren't the only solutions for repairing and enhancing video. You can use tools like Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and even Illustrator to correct problems like lens distortion, camera shake, excessive noise and grain, and overblown exposure. This course covers innovative technical and creative techniques for bringing footage back to life. Learn how to clone and heal video, fix alignment, and recover exposure. Instructor Rich Harrington also introduces advanced techniques for speeding up and slowing down video, rotoscoping footage, and using the numerous creative color and texture effects in Photoshop and After Effects. If your footage has ever needed some extra attention, this course is for you.

Learning objectives
The retoucher's toolbox: cloning and healing tools
Stabilizing footage
Fixing alignment
Retiming footage
Removing lens distortion
Using rotoscoping to enhance footage
Recovering exposure
Color grading with Photoshop
Converting to black and white
Creating a film look

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files

1. The Retoucher's Toolbox

04 - Why you might need to clone video
05 - The Clone Stamp tool
06 - Cloning over time
07 - The Healing Brush tool
08 - The Patch tool
09 - Using Content-Aware Fill with video
10 - Keyframing a Clone Stamp
11 - Nondestructive cloning

2. Restoration in Action - Video

12 - Removing noise and grain from footage
13 - Stabilizing footage with the Warp Stabilizer
14 - Fixing alignment
15 - Sharpening video
16 - Reducing camera shake in video
17 - Replacing a dropped frame

3. Changing the Speed of Video

18 - Modifying the footage frame rate
19 - Retiming footage - Overcranking
20 - Retiming footage - Slow motion
21 - Reversing footage
22 - Advanced time remapping

4. Correcting for Lens Distortion

23 - Removing lens distortion in video - Automatic
24 - Removing lens distortion in video - Manual
25 - Removing wide-angle distortion in video
26 - Removing distortion with Upright

5. Using Rotoscoping to Enhance Footage

27 - Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush
28 - Refining the Roto Brush effect
29 - Relighting the Roto Brush scene
30 - Advanced Roto workflow - Part 1
31 - Advanced Roto workflow - Part 2

6. Recovering Video with Exposure Issues

32 - Improving faded historical video
33 - Replacing a blown-out sky in video
34 - Recovering typical exposure issues
35 - Advanced exposure recovery techniques

7. Stylizing Footage

36 - Secondary color grading with Photoshop
37 - Using lookup tables (LUTs) for quick looks
38 - The Photo Filter command
39 - Advanced black-and-white conversion for footage
40 - Stylizing color with gradient maps
41 - Stylizing color with the Colorama effects
42 - The Leave Color effect
43 - Creating a spot color effect in Photoshop
44 - Creating a film look

Conclusion

45 - Final thoughts