I am trying to improve some underwater diving footage but have come up with a snag.
I thought an easy fix was to apply the 'Underwater' effect on PowerDirector 365 (under Sports), however I cant see anywhere where you can adjust the instensity / amount of effect as there is too much Red / colour at shallower depths but is perfect at depths of around 20m.
So, I thought, lets add another video track directly below my main track and copy and paste the underwater scenes. I could then apply the Underwater FX to the bottom track and adjust the Opacity to get the perfect amount of colour adjustment for each scene. However, whilst the colours now looked perfect and were easy to adjust there seemed to be a misalignment of the videos with some shadow type trails effect despite copy and paste in the exact same spot (the frame 0) and zooming in to make sure the videos above each other were aligned.
Therefore, I have 2 questions:
Is there any way to adjust the amount / intensity of effect of an FX / LUT in Powerdirector 365?
or
Is there any way to easily exactly align the same clip one above the other to prevent shadow trails and then use effect and Opacity on Lower clip to achieve the overall desired effect ?
Grateful for your advice
p.s. I did try using Colour Director with the 'strength' adjustment but I couldnt find the sames 'underwater' effect that I use on PowerDirector so the results were not as good (spent ages trying to adjust but just couldn't get the same result). It also takes much longer as the diving at different depths requires individual adjustment for each clip (due to change in light at different depths) so I find it much quicker just to apply a LUT / FX from the preset on PowerDirector 365.
Filename | Original.jpg |
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Description | Original Footage |
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Filename | Underwater FX.jpg |
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Description | With Underwater FX (too much Red and Colour) |
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395 Kbytes
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Filename | Blended.jpg |
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Description | 2 Tracks one above the other with 50% Opacity on lower track (good colour, however 'shadow' trails on video) |
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356 Kbytes
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Downloaded: | 4 time(s) |