Color Correction: Adjust Video Brightness, Contrast and Saturation for free

Color Correction in XMedia Recode: Tips and Techniques

With the "Color Correction" filter you can change the brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation.

This filter allows you to selectively adjust the brightness to balance dark or overexposed scenes.

Contrast can also be optimized, enhancing the differences between light and dark areas and making the image appear more vibrant.

Step-by-step guide: Correcting color in videos

In this guide, we'll show you how to adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation in just a few simple steps.

Step 1: Select the "Filter/Preview" tab and click the "Video Track" tab

You can add the Color Correction filter using the "Add filter" button.

Select filter/preview

Step 2: Select Color Correction filter and click "Add"

add Color Correction Filter

Step 3: Select Color Correction and set settings

enable Color Correction filter

Step 4: Activate Color Correction filter

If you click on the eye, the Color Correction filter can be activated or deactivated.

Color Correction filter activated

Color Correction filter activated

Color Correction filter deactivated

Color Correction filter deactivated

Start Time

  • Specifies the start time of the filter.

End Time

  • Specifies the desired end time of the filter.
Filter start time and end time

To apply the color correction filter accurately, it is important to set both the start time and the end time. The start time indicates at what point in the video the color correction begins, so that the changes take effect from a specific moment. The end time determines the point at which the color correction ends, ensuring that the filter is only applied to the desired section.

Brightness

  • The Brightness function can be used to change the brightness of an image.
  • Values below 0 darken the image, values above 0 lighten the image (values between -100 to 100).
Color Correction filter: Brightness setting

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: 70

Bright beach image with strongly brightened colors, brightness increased by 70

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: 70

Bright beach image with lower brightened colors, brightness increased by -70

Contrast

  • The Contrast function changes the contrast of an image.
  • A value below 0 reduces the contrast, a value above 0 increases it. (Values between -100 to 100).
Color Correction filter: Contrast setting

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: -100

Image with low contrast

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: 100

Image with low contrast

Saturation

  • The Saturation function increases or decreases the saturation of an image.
  • Values above 0 increase saturation, values below 0 decrease saturation (values between -100 to 100)
Color Correction filter: Saturation setting

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: -100

Image with low Saturation

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: 100

Image with low Saturation

Gamma

The gamma correction is the subjective brightness perceived by humans.

  • values between -100 to 100
Color Correction filter: Gamma setting

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: 100

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: -100

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Gamma Red

  • values between -100 to 100
Color Correction filter: Gamma Red setting

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: 100

Before

Original image of a beach with blue sky, palm trees and a hut

After value: -100


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