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| Thanks for your interest, but I wouldn't want to suggest that this is something particularly useful. For video work you'd need several takes of the same shot with bracketed exposures, which isn't something you can do without the shot being locked off, or without using a motion control rig. If the shot is locked off then the subject matter also needs to be static, and so you end up in a situation where you may as well use a still photo. And if you're using HDR photos then you'll get much better results using Photoshop or a different HDR package. So figuring out how to do HDR video merges inside After Effects isn't going to have many practical applications -Dave's situation with the Photron footage is unusual and interesting.
A lot of roto/ touch up work I do for car TVCs is essentially replicating what would be theoretically possible with HDR footage - sky replacements and reflection replacements etc etc, but it's all very art directed and there would be no attraction to working in HDR to recover a sky that was filmed on the day if it's all going to be replaced with a different (perfectly photoshopped) sky anyway...
-Chris On 01/01/2012, at 1:05 PM, Rich Young wrote: That would be a popular video tutorial, even as a short quick tip demo that explained the why.
Rich
I've experimented with HDR photography a bit and you can't do a perfect HDR merge in After Effects using only plugins or transfer modes. But if your source footage has a very wide latitude, then you can use simple layer stacks to recover shadows and highlights. In 32bit mode, stack your 3 layers on top of each other with the add transfer mode, and then use an adjustment layer on top of them all to control exposure and recover highlights. I've played around with combinations of 'exposure', ' HDR highlight compression', 'HDR compander' and 'levels'. Depending on your footage you might get a better result than a straight 8-bit pass, but render times are very slow.
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