Additionally, what PD11 has done with next generation of TrueVelocity3, cpu and multi-GPGPU encoding is currently somewhat a mystery to me. I only know my CPU encoding of about 15 different projects have a 5-30% slowness factor relative to PD10, same hardware.

Can anyone one comment with some personal experience using the TrueVelocity 3 and the Multi-GPGPU encoding?

I would be interested in knowing more.

Do I have to start a new topic? Not really sure as I am expanding on Jeff's comment.

Edit( yes I edited my response, I didn't delete anything, simply added to my thoughtful question). Looking for objective data not a subjective opinion regarding this question. Thanks in advance.
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Can someone please let the rest of us know what highlight healing actually does to their project ?

Anyone ? Win 10, i7

It appears to try to recover blown out sections of the video, similar to recovering blown out sections of photos when using Photoshop or Lightroom.

In one video I tried it on though if I turned it up too high the clouds in the sky started blinking as if it worked in one frame but not the next. To stop the blinking I had to turn it down so low as to make very little difference.

I think it is a good idea but needs more development. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

Hi Robert

Have you tried ColorDirector to do this?

I've found it very good on white balance and colour grading.

There are some handy 'toots' in the ColorDirector forum page.

Happy editing Happing editing

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Thanks Neil, I had a quick look at the tutorials, don't have colour or audiodirector installed. I am though at a stage in my editing of......"minimum effort, maximum result" so I think I might pass on those two for the time being. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

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Quote: It appears to try to recover blown out sections of the video, similar to recovering blown out sections of photos when using Photoshop or Lightroom.

I agree with your assessment, Robert. Even though the help file & user guide is strangely silent on highlight healing, it appears to be aimed at restoring details in over exposed/blown out clips.

Quote: In one video I tried it on though if I turned it up too high the clouds in the sky started blinking as if it worked in one frame but not the next. To stop the blinking I had to turn it down so low as to make very little difference. I think it is a good idea but needs more development.

Yes - found the same thing. "Blinking" would be a generous description. some of my produced clips with highlight healing applied at 25%+ looked like they were shot in a lightning storm. S0 - yes - a bit more work to be done.

I know the topic is shifting in this thread but, following up on Neil's suggestion about ColorDirector, Highlight Healing in PD11 is, I think, akin to some of the tone adjustments in CDR. Using the same clip, I produced similar results by decreasing the brightest tones in CDR. ColorDirector, however, produced its video without blinking & lightning strikes... & did it in about half the time.

Comparison screenshots of produced videos from PD11 & CDR





Cheers - Tony


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I was hoping highlight healing would work on a video the same as "Shadows/highlights" in photoshop. That is you can adjust the highlights and shadows separately.

In my hanggliding videos I am in shadow most of the time hanging under my wing and the sky gets washed out a lot of times. Not too bad if it is a cloudless sky I just pump up the saturation a bit. When it has white fluffy clouds is when it looses that last 10% of quality.

I 'll download the trial ColourDirector and give it a go. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

Well I downloaded the trial. Yes it does a pretty good job, although the trial doesn't allow me to produce HD so I can get a better look. Also $129 is too expensive to get that last 10% out of my videos. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

Looking at Tony’s comparisons, and following this quite interesting thread, I am wondering:
If I have gotten what has been posted, I am missing (the consept) gamma.
In PHSH, as Robert said, you have the “shadows/highlights” you adjust separately. But you
also have the option to correct “gamma/exposure”. Together, these tools can do wonders with
over-/under exposure.
From what I am able to see from the comparisons, the “highlights” seem to be somewhat corrected,
but the shadows seem to be suffering (flattened/greyed ?)

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Quote: Looking at Tony’s comparisons, and following this quite interesting thread, I am wondering:
If I have gotten what has been posted, I am missing (the consept) gamma.
In PHSH, as Robert said, you have the “shadows/highlights” you adjust separately. But you
also have the option to correct “gamma/exposure”. Together, these tools can do wonders with
over-/under exposure.
From what I am able to see from the comparisons, the “highlights” seem to be somewhat corrected,
but the shadows seem to be suffering (flattened/greyed ?)

Nina

Maybe you're looking at it sideways.

If I understand you correctly, the problem seems to be that you can't manipulate the compensation curves directly. Do you see the eyedropper in the "White Balance" area? This manipulates one end (the white end). What's missing are eyedroppers for black and, potentially, grey.

Photo editors would have those manual adjustments, and more, but PD doesn't. Jerry Schwartz