Repairing and Enhancing Video

Learn how to repair and enhance video with Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator. Correct shaky footage, lens distortion, bad exposure, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. The Retoucher's Toolbox

• Why you might need to clone video
• The Clone Stamp tool
• Cloning over time
• The Healing Brush tool
• The Patch tool
• Using Content-Aware Fill with video
• Keyframing a Clone Stamp
• Nondestructive cloning

2. Restoration in Action: Video

• Removing noise and grain from footage
• Stabilizing footage with the Warp Stabilizer
• Fixing alignment
• Sharpening video
• Reducing camera shake in video
• Replacing a dropped frame

3. Changing the Speed of Video

• Modifying the footage frame rate
• Retiming footage: Overcranking
• Retiming footage: Slow motion
• Reversing footage
• Advanced time remapping

4. Correcting for Lens Distortion

• Removing lens distortion in video: Automatic
• Removing lens distortion in video: Manual
• Removing wide-angle distortion in video
• Removing distortion with Upright

5. Using Rotoscoping to Enhance Footage

• Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush
• Refining the Roto Brush effect
• Relighting the Roto Brush scene
• Advanced Roto workflow: Part 1
• Advanced Roto workflow: Part 2

6. Recovering Video with Exposure Issues

• Improving faded historical video
• Replacing a blown-out sky in video
• Recovering typical exposure issues
• Advanced exposure recovery techniques

7. Stylizing Footage

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

Conclusion

• Final thoughts