 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe After Effects tutorial. This one we're in After Effects 2021. I'm going to show you how to relight dark footage or brighten footage. I'm going to make a dark scene like this lighter. If you have a dark scene and maybe you didn't bring out the right lights or maybe it got dark out or maybe it got the footage and it just didn't turn out the way you wanted it to. Don't panic. I'm going to show you some cool techniques to make this dark footage lighter. Now to get rolling with me, I've got some default stock footage. I got up pixels and it's free and I'll just scrub through it so you can see what I've got here. Very dark, very rainy, moody, but way too dark. You can't see any of the details. This step and I'm going to show you this is very, very quick. I was surprised when I learned this, but here it is. The first step is you want to duplicate the layer. So I've got video one here. I'm going to right click on it and then I'm going to go down here and I'm going to find duplicate wherever the heck duplicate is. Actually, notice not there. It's an edit, edit, duplicate, easier, done. Okay. The next step and this is the important one is you want to make sure that right down here that your transfer controls pane is open and I know a lot of people don't have this open by default. So you need to left click on the bottom here to open it. Once you do that, making sure that you're still selected on the top layer, you want to go ahead and select the mode. Now what you want to do is instead of the normal blending mode, you want to go down to add and as soon as you do that and you could see it, you just saw I do it. We automatically added in light right into the scene and it looks pretty darn good. You can now see the background a little better. I mean, you could see there's a store there or some sort of hotel and presto. That's it. If you want to do it again, just go to edit, duplicate, make another layer and bang, you've got it even brighter. Now, I don't know how bright it needs to be for you and what you're looking for, but that technique alone can save a lot of broken footage, dark footage, footage you thought that you didn't get the right lighting on all of a sudden couple seconds later, footage is good to go guys. Thanks for watching tutorial. I got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.