 Hell yeah, what's up guys? This is Chris Pike. My friends come a big see. I'm back in action today I want to show you how to take footage video you shot during the day and make it look like you shot it at night Why am I showing you this? Well, I'm showing it first off using HitFilm. It's free software to download So this is how you can do it for free if you're a videographer or if you're a student and you want a night shot Here's how you can do it for free. You don't have to pay for anything Secondly, a lot of people like to shoot shots at night because they want footage That looks like it was recorded at night, but the problem with that is it looks well You can get a lot of grain and noise and artifacting and depending on the type of camera and lenses you're running Sometimes you won't pick up all the details So it's sometimes better to actually shoot it during the day when you can get everything And then apply some special effects it to it and make it look like you shot it at night Which is what I've done here. This is using free software. Don't mind you So uh, there's a little bit more blue in this than I would probably like But uh, this is just to give you an idea and on the left side here You'll see that this was shot during the day here. She is this with her head out the window So let me show you how I did this and we'll actually take out some of the blue to make it a little more believable So let's just start from scratch like I like to do. Okay. The first step Drag and drop in some footage on a video track one like I've done here I'm going to click no on this because I'm using 4k footage and HitFilm Express Applies a watermark if you use 4k Footage and you don't uh have a paid version. So I just keep that in mind So I just transformed it so that it fits the frame Okay, now we want to go ahead and start making some adjustments to make this day shot look like it was shot at night We're going into the effects now. I'm going to tell you right now. They've got a Color grading option that's called day for night when I apply it. I'll be honest with you It's just not that good and you can't really make the level of adjustments that you would need To make this look believable. So I'm going to go ahead and Command Zed or Control Zed And undo that but I do want you guys to know that it's there if you really want to try it and I have considered it Okay, all of that aside Let's get cracking. The first step is we're going to apply a curves Adjustment layer to the video like I'm doing here Excuse me. I'm going to drag and drop that on there and you're going to see that it has a whole bunch of different options Including the standard rgb curve, which is red green blue And then of course you can break it down into individual channels Which we may have to do because again the blue tends to get a little bit over Done in this type of video. Um, that said, let's go ahead. We're using the rgb curve Here we'll look at the curve here and then this is what you basically need to do the the curve has Shadows on the left side You know in the middle it's um and then it's highlights at the top So, you know, it's kind of like your mids you got your shadows your mids and your Your highlights generally speaking You want to take the you want to take your shadows down because you want it to look darker at night And we're just going to slowly bend this curve a little bit But we're leaving the highlights Not too much adjustment there because we want the bright We want to have that nice contrast where you can see her colors and you can see her nice bright look However, you can tell that it was shot at night. So that's how I would adjust the curve to start Let's go ahead and start adding in some more effects The second one we're going to apply is called color temperature. This is the this gives it the dark scary Shot at night look and generally all night footage has a blue Cast to it. So it applies we get a blue look So i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to apply that and then we're going to adjust the temperature to give it that Neat little blue look now watch as I do this You'll see here if I go left this means it's basically shot in daylight And this is we're basically just changing the color temperature in kelvin's But if you move it to the right, you'll see that it begins to take on a bluish cast or a bluish tinge That means it was shot at night time generally So the bluer the look the more night time it tends to be so just keep that in the back of your head So we've gone ahead now and adjusted it for us. We're going to go with 66 60 kelvin Okay, good. So those are the first two effects now. Let's keep thinking about what we want to do here I want to go ahead and adjust a huge saturation and lightness a little bit as well So this is not a requirement. You can see that we're pretty much already there But again, if you want to go a little bit deeper down the rabbit hole We can if we apply that nothing happens right off the bat But what I like to do is I like to go into the blue And in the blue we can adjust it to get a little bit of more blue or less blue That's not the one part of me We can desaturate it a little bit or we can super saturated I prefer to desaturate a little as you can see here because it's just taking away a little bit of that Too much of the blue look and again, you can also adjust the shift here, but we're not going to do that So basically what I like to do like I said is we're just going to basically take down the saturation a little bit And that is how you go ahead and create a day shot to make it look like you shot it Not in the middle of the night, but getting close to evening suns out that type of look guys Thanks for watching And remember you can adjust this to if you need it to be darker or lighter adjusted as you see fit But those are the variables you can adjust. 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