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Q: Looking for an Effect or Trick: for "door open light flood in"

Looking for an Effect: I have a woman standing inside a room just inside the door. Camera on woman, the door busts open. You do not see door, just the splash of light that floods the room and hits the woman when the door opens. Anybody know a effect or trick that can make this look real? Thank you for your time.

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 1:42 PM

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Q: Looking for an Effect or Trick: for "door open light flood in"

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  • by David Bogie Chq-1,

    David Bogie Chq-1 David Bogie Chq-1 Oct 3, 2015 7:39 PM in response to countrydiq
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    Oct 3, 2015 7:39 PM in response to countrydiq

    YYou've already shot it without considering how you'd pull it off or you're planning the shoot?

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    David Bogie Chq-1 David Bogie Chq-1 Oct 4, 2015 12:43 PM in response to countrydiq
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    Oct 4, 2015 12:43 PM in response to countrydiq

    countrydiq wrote:

    Anybody know a effect or trick that can make this look real? Thank you for your time.

    Ah, perhaps you've already shot it, then.  This is tricky, depends on your skills and knowledge as well as your need for realism versus stylization. If you can pull a matte of the sections of the scene you want to illuminate, you can apply a luminance boost filter to the matte, add some blur or glow, and use the blend mode Add to raise the luma. The tricky parts are staying within video spec and not totally obscuring the underlying detail.

     

    Enhanced or dramatic lighting is usually far easier to shoot using practical effects than to fix in post unless you have the effects chops or access to an effects wonk.

     

    Can you post a still image of the shot you're trying to fix?