How can I adjust the Color Board on-the-fly?

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How can I adjust the Color Board on-the-fly?

I have a Canon G7 X camera that auto-adjusts the video exposure unless you lock it in. (A screen tap will do it but I forgot.) The result is that the overall exposure might vary several times during a recording segment. It's not step-wise but a sub-second lightening or darkening. Of course I'd like to even it out.

The Color Board lacks a means to keyframe the exposure levels. One technique I tried was to overlay a clip with itself, snip it up around the darker sections, adjust the exposure of those sub-clips, and then fade/transition them on top of the original clip.

Is there a better or easier way?

Posted on Nov 25, 2015 2:08 PM

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Neil G Author

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Nov 25, 2015 2:38 PM in response to Neil G

After reading back thru some old postings I see how I can add a 'mask' to the Color Board's effects and move the mask around w/keyframes, but I don't seem to be able to adjust the Color Board's settings at the Keyframe points. Not helpful for my problem.

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Russ H

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Nov 25, 2015 4:45 PM in response to Neil G

The Color Board lacks a means to keyframe the exposure levels. One technique I tried was to overlay a clip with itself, snip it up around the darker sections, adjust the exposure of those sub-clips, and then fade/transition them on top of the original clip.

Is there a better or easier way?

My preference is to duplicate the clip to a layer above and then keyframe the opacity.

Others prefer an adjustment layer.

Russ

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