 Hello everyone, welcome back to another Adobe After Effects tutorial guys this one I'm going to show you how to relight or brighten dark footage in After Effects in like 90 seconds guys You could if anybody that took out some shots and you're out filming and it was too dark out at night And you can't use the footage don't get rid of it. Try this work with me Okay, so the first step here is I've got some footage and it's just a video of a cabinet night This is just stock footage. I'm gonna drag and drop it down into the timeline. There you go You see what we got? It's not bad, but it's kind of dark, right? And again, I just want to show you the technique so I hit spacebar and here you go You see what we got right? We just got some dark footage of a cabin not bad But let's say we want to brighten it up now This could be any kind of footage if you guys did like pitch black stuff There's still a good chance. We'll be able to get some of those details out Anyways, the next step and this is the critical step is you see that little Cube here. It's the 3d layer cube. Make sure that this is clicked on It's very very important because now we're gonna create a light. We're gonna go to layer we're gonna go to new and then we're gonna go to light and By default it's set to parallel and this is not what you want and it's at default It's set to 100% parallel. These are not the the settings that we want We want you to go to ambient and then for purpose of demonstration I'm gonna jump the intensity way up to like 250% let's say and now watch what happens boom the entire scene is real it it is Bright it is like sparkling bright. I'll hit spacebar and You know what because we're using a light we turn the light off we started off with this kind of grayish Darkish color and we've got it completely really guys. We did that in 90 seconds in after effects This is really really good If you have like a couple pieces of footage that you need to just you know make brighter But you don't want to imply it to the whole thing in Premiere Pro I also do have a video that shows you how to do this in Premiere Pro, but that's it guys I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. I got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned. Thanks for watching