Posted by Mike Kujbida on 10/16/06 21:21

boku.ronin@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> i got a bunch of low-quality videos (mpg, avi) I need to "correct";
> most of these videos are (heavily) overexposed. Is there any program
> that can *automatically* improve the quality of such videos (i.e.,
> doing a brightness correction) ? (i know some programs for pictures,
> which do e.g. a histogram equalization to improve the quality. Is
> there something analogous for videos as well) ?
> i don't really care if the colors are correct or not, i'm mainly
> interested in the brightness.
> as i got many of these videos to correct, and i'm quite a newbie to
> video technology, i would really need a program that can do it
> automatically!
> thanks in advance!!
> Chris


Keep in mind that whatever program you end up using will do nothing to
restore detail to the blown out (overexposed) highlights. With video, once
the detail is gone,it's gone forever.

Mike

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