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- >It seems to me that LW is missing one critical tool for compositing with
- >live footage.... Contrast/brightness adjustment before composite. You get
- >rough control with ambient light and lighting in general but there is no
- >tool for contrast per se (as Photoshop or Picture Publisher have). One of
- >the most subtle and yet important matching tools is contrast. Think of all
- >the composite shots that you have seen where the foreground object looks
- >washed out. Right now I am rendering against black with alpha and then
- >doing the composite in Cinefusion- a major pain.
- >
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- Although I've never used it, I believe the Wavefilter plugin goes a long
- way toward solving this problem.
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- Andrew Weiler
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