Hello @jonray and others.
I have been working hard trying to improve the video in Shotcut even more and here is the result of my new procedure to make the video step by step.
What I changes did:
- we recorded all video tracks again to avoid any extra work with masking unwanted objects in the background by putting black sheet under piano
Then I used the gradient filter to darken up the area under hands. It works, however I bumped into some serious picture quality issues when blending with key lights, but then luckily I found a simple solution that worked perfect - Levels filter - increase input black. For some reason hands went red which I resolved with the Color Grading filter to get desired result:
- Key lights - I managed to simplify the procedure of blending the light through the keyboard a lot, just using blur and chroma filters.This time I generated as bright keypress lights as possible from the midi visualizer (the Keysight software):
The blur filter brings desired light effect:
Then the image look like this when blending together with piano track, notice the cutting line which disturbs the effect:
This problem was resolved by using the chroma filter, donât ask me why, I donât know, perhaps some Shotcut expert can explain how that works, but the result image looks quite neat to my eyes finally:
The last filter used was the Opacity filter on the piano hands track which made a nice contrast between lights and keyboard after finding the right value of opacity.
Further goals achieved:
- Recorded in 4k (will need to buy a new computer as the export times increased a lot!)
- Managed to make the lights more âcontrastâ or âparticularâ
- Used different colors in another video to introduce some variety in effects.
Here is my 2 videos produced so far. What do you think? Have I managed to improve it or is there something I could still change to improve further? With the second video I was fighting with contrast a bit and have not managed to get where I wanted to be, but I think I can still be happy with the result.
Bach - Prelude C Major
I will make these videos public soon.
If you like them then please go on that channel and Like&Subscribe to support my daughterâs work and also to catch up with further content which will be coming a lot in the near future.
Lot of lessons learned in this project, pretty much only trial-error approach, but I think itâs a good way to learn new things and I feel much more comfortable in Shotcut now.
