 everybody welcome back to the tutorial in this one we're in hitfilm the new version of the former hitfilm express and i'm going to show you how to lighten dark footage for free. Hitfilm is a free video editor for the most part but it isn't perfect but it's free for most of its effects and here let me show you i've got a shot i'll just hit play here and we've got this shot in the dark kind of lightning is going to crash in there and then i'll relit it just like this and it's way over relit as you can see here it's got noise and speckles but i'm going to show you how to do both of these things from scratch so let's just start here first step bring in your footage in like i've done here just drag and drop it into video one the next step is we're going to go to our effects panel and what we're going to look for first is we're going to go ahead and we're going to add in a hue or pardon me a brightness so just type in bright like i've done there and under color correction you'll see brightness and contrast click on that drag and drop it onto the timeline make sure it drops onto your video track when you do that nothing happens at first which is fine you'll notice there there are some basic presets but they're not very good so what you want to do here is you want to increase the brightness which is pretty obvious but what a lot of people don't realize is you also have to increase the contrast dramatically by doing that it allows you to bring the brightness up quite a bit and without getting too funny looking so let's see here so if i was to go through the footage now you're going to see here there's a light post or a lamp post here that you maybe didn't see in the original shot when you're looking here you don't really see it you can look real close and you'll see it with this relighting now you can see it and you see quite a bit more that said you can take this to another level if you want this is more for forensic type relighting situations than short films but i'll show you anyway you can type in curves like i did here under the effects and then drag and drop curves it's also under color correction put that on top now it doesn't do anything uh to the right away but you need to go ahead and begin adjusting the curve and what you can do is you can pull the curve up you'll see here at the top it's bright and then it's dark here so it's light and dark start pulling up like this watch this as i pull up the curve and i'm gonna pull it quite a bit up now and i'll pull this one even to the left let's see how are we doing let's keep pulling pulling pulling yeah that's a bit too much maybe but either way as you pull the curve higher you'll see that it has gone ahead and even made it brighter that said you'll see a lot more noise if i turn it off you turn it on it's brighter than it was before but again it added in another element of noise but to relight dark footage if you took some shots out at night and you're walking around you're not sure if you can use the footage try these two techniques you probably can thanks for watching a ton more stuff coming up