 Hello everybody, welcome back to another AI video and this one I want to show you how to brighten or lighten dark video or dark footage dark clips anything that you may have filmed that night maybe you're a film student and you got some shots but they're dark and you want to lighten them up well here we go here's the original shot I'll show you here it is incredibly dark this is poorly shot it's at night it's not going to be that great but I've made some changes to it and if I turn them on you'll see here that I've gone ahead and I've created it so that while it's not great it is much more you can very clearly see that this is on a ship and that it's white and red or in the original shot you can't really see anything other than the middle lights here so how did I do it I'm going to show you step by step and do keep in mind that if you have a copy of Premiere Pro I highly recommend that you use Premiere Pro it's much better at it and I have a tutorial on this that I'll link in the description below but assuming you don't have a paid copy of Premiere Pro let's do our best inside of Runway ML okay let's go back to our projects page and you know what the hell with it let's just start from scratch first up RunwayML.com type that in you get two options you can either login if you've got an account or you can sign up and it is free and it really is free it's pretty damn cool so I'm going to click on login um and here we go on the left side that's slowly loading here you're going to see you can create a new project you can have up to three projects I'm going to go ahead click on create project create video composition now we're rolling now the next step is I'm going to go into my finder and I'm going to find that terrible footage I've got a bunch of really dark videos in this one I'm going to use this one here I believe this is the one I'm going to drag it and drop it right into the center here right over top of the panel the middle panel when I do that it takes a few seconds and it's going to load up the footage if I hit space bar that means I can play it and you can see here that we're working with some very dark footage that you can barely make out that this is a boat and you can't really make out the colors now there are a few ways to do this I'm going to show you if you want to you can try to do it with effects and filters however I'm going to tell you straight up front that the current filters don't really get it done like a brightness and contrast or even a hue saturation and lightness one which is right here this is the one that you would expect to work it doesn't work properly so just keep that in mind I want to save you some time giving it a shot now the way to do this in fact is to go to the left side and click on solid when you click solid it creates a white solid and that's cool that's exactly what we want unless you want a special color to your light so this white solid doesn't work out of the box here and if it's not white just make it white then you can do that by clicking on this color here and then just setting it all the way to the top okay good fff fff fff like every one of my report cards okay good so we've got a white solid click on the solid like I've done here and now this is the critical part you want to go up here and you want to change the percentage we're going to change it to 40 and then it's going to be like okay this looked kind of cool but the whole thing is lit and it doesn't look right so what you need to do is you need to change the blend mode so you've changed the percentage to 40 change the blend mode to soft light this is the critical part we're changing that up now when I hit space bar you can very clearly see that we've got some red some white here it's not too noisy it's not perfect footage don't get me wrong but also keep in mind that this is rendering it in 1920 what we're seeing but the actual file itself is 4k so when you hit export it'll it'll look a little better than what you're seeing here at least it should in theory um what else do we got here so I'm going to click back on the solid here you can dial in the 40 percent this is a number that worked for me if you wanted to be a subtle effect do 20 if you wanted to be a little crazy you can maybe try 50 or whatever the heck notice though at 50 it starts to get a little bit choppy and blocky and a little artifact but again this is kind of based on your needs so this is the correct technique in my opinion if you have any other questions let me know thanks for watching