 Hello everybody, welcome back to another HitFilm Express tutorial. In this one, we're using HitFilm Express, it's free video editing software, it's free on the internet, and I'm going to show you how to relight footage for free. So if you've gone out and taken some shots, either on your DSLR or maybe you got some dark footage on your phone or you're doing a project for school and you didn't light it correctly, whatever it is, I'm going to show you how to relight your footage and make it look good. So let's go right into it. If you've got HitFilm Express, if you don't have a copy, it's free to download. The link will be in the description below. The next step here is I've selected some deliberately bad footage. This is dark, very, very yucky. Let me just quickly show you what we got here. I just hit play and you're going to see here that it's just a dark street in a kind of sepia color, a little bit of a sepia color tone and there's a flash of lightning, but overall it's just really dark and well it's just not good footage. Let's go ahead and fix that. Now the two effects, I'm going to go to the controls panel here. So we were in the media, we're switching to controls. The two effects are neon glow and the levels histogram. This is how you can go ahead and make it nice and pretty. I'm going to delete them and show you how to do it from scratch, but if you're skipping ahead, well those are the two. So I'm going to remove them. The first one and the most important one is the levels histogram. Let's go to effects here and then I'm just going to make this a little bit bigger or something like that and then instead of going through all of them one by one, just type in levels, l-e-v-e-l and when you do that you've got levy here and then you're going to see, well, levels histogram. So right now for me it's under color correction, levels histogram. I'm going to left click on that and I'm going to drag and drop it right on top of the video. When you do that, nothing happens and that's all K. Or all good. I couldn't make my mind up what I wanted to say there. All right, but what it does do is it loads up the levels histogram and I'm just going to make this nice and big now. And you're going to see here that I can go ahead and move the slider. So watch what happens here. As I move this slider, it gets darker. Okay, great. As I move this slider to the left, particularly the middle one here, now look what's happening. You see how this is relighting the shot? It's still got quite a red tinge in it, but by just moving that, by moving these mid tones and moving the highlights to the left, you'll see here this is a completely different shot. Let me click on the button. This is the regular footage. This is the revised footage. For some of you that might be all you need to do to relight your footage as you see fit. So do keep in mind that that was it. That's all you had to do. If you want to go a little further, you can go to the effects and we're going to do the neon. So I'm just going to type in N-E-O-N, neon. And then where is it? Neon glow. There's the one. For me, it's under Recents, but if you don't see it, it's under Lights and Flares. Left click on Neon Glow and drag and drop that on top of it as well. Again, this will do a whole bunch of stuff and this looks absolutely wonky, but nothing to panic about. What you want to do here, and this is the trick, is right now when you go to the neon glow underneath Controls, you're going to see the Blend Mode is set to Screen. We don't want that. We actually want to switch it up. Let's try Overlay. When you do that, now I'm going to turn it off and on. It's added another, basically it's just made it a whole bunch brighter without affecting any of the colors. So this might be too much. Don't get me wrong. And then you can just dial it back as you see fit. So if you don't want it at full intensity and you want it at something like this, maybe this is the color, this is the shot you're looking for. This is how you do it, guys. This is taking it. And again, this is stock footage. I'm going to turn both the effects off. I'm going to close them up here. This, right here, is the footage we got. This is with the Levels Histogram. This is with an additional neon glow, which I actually dialed down a bit, but I'll just increase it so you can see it. This is with the neon glow jacked up a little bit. So there you go, guys. That's how you brighten dark footage for free, using free software, free tools, guys. That's it. So watching, I got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.