Really Dark Video - (DV AVI)

[mz_]

I have a few scenes/clips that came out very dark (at night) and I would like to lighten them up a bit. I tried the following script using CCE;

LoadPlugin("C:\Utils\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Utils\Convolution3DYV12.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Utils\HDRAGC.dll")
AVISource("C:\Utils\CCE\Tape2-Clip014.avi")
ConvertToYV12(interlaced=true)
AssumeBFF()
LeakKernelBob(Order=1)#if TFF,Order=0 if BFF
HDRAGC(coef_sat=2.5,max_gain =3.0,min_gain=1.0,corrector=1.5)
Convolution3D(0, 32, 128, 16, 64, 10, 0)
AssumeBFF()
SeparateFields()
SelectEvery(4,0,3)#if TFF, SelectEvery(4,1,2) if BFF
Weave()

It does lighten it up pretty good, but alot of noise is shown (blurry?) and I really don't want to deinterlace as it's for a DVD I'm making to be played mostly on TV sets (HD and SD).

I have Vegas 7.0d also, if theres something suitable I can do inside that. These clips will be imported back into Vegas for the final editing and rendered out to m2v and ac3 audio. Just trying to find the most useful way of fixing these scenes.

Here is a link to the DV AVI file for testing;

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H16AWSOS

Thanks for any help.

[Reuf Toc]

Maybe this thread can help you :

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123767

Did you tried to denoise before to use HDRAGC ? About denoising, I think you should give a try to others filters than convolution3D (like FFT3D, MVDegrain...).

[Boulder]

A little sidenote: your LeakKernelBob order parameter is incorrect. It should be order=0 because DV is BFF. The reinterlacing part is correct, AssumeBFF followed by SeparateFields().SelectEvery(4,0,3).Weave() which means you get BFF output.