 Hello everybody, welcome back to another HitFilm Express video on this one. I'm gonna show you how to basically brighten any piece of footage using free video editing software. HitFilm Express is free to use, it's free to download, and if you have dark footage that you filmed at night or you filmed it on your phone and it's too dark and you can't make something out or you got a project due and it just doesn't look good enough because you had the wrong lighting, I got you covered. I'm going to teach you how to do it in 60 seconds. All right here, here is the original shot. I'll just show you how to hit spacebar and you'll see it's a dark night because a little bit of lightning. There's a car here, there's a light here and you can't really make out much else. I've applied the curves effect and I'm sort of left-click on that little thing and presto. It is completely relit and this does not have any external lighting. This is all synthetic lighting. There's a second car, there's a sign in the driveway here, you can see another car over there. It's pretty crazy what you can do. So let me show you how to do it from scratch, okay? So I've got some footage here, like I said, I'm going to hover over top of it. What you want to do is once you've got your footage into the timeline like this, you want to go to the effects panel right here and then type in curves like I have already done, C-U-R-V-E-S. You'll see color correction curves. I'm going to left-click on curves and I'm just going to drag and drop it on top of that video. There we go. I did it wrong. There you go. Now it automatically takes you to the controls panel and we can start making some adjustments. Also notice that there's a check mark inside the curve box, so that means we're basically we're cooking here. So what you want to do is you want to click on this little left dot here and you want to move it. You want to move it quite a bit to the left more than you would normally think because this will show you the effect. So just by doing that, if I click off on, you will see already quite a difference. Now what I'd like to do is I will add another point and then I sort of slowly pull it out and I sort of try and figure out what type of look I'm going for. So I don't know. I mean, you guys get the point. You can you can change this as you see fit. Ooh, that's way too bright, right? But here's the thing. Just by adding this curves here and maybe we want a smoother curve. I don't know something like that. Let's say, okay, there you go. Just by doing that, you can already see all that detail to sign the cars, the lights. You will notice there is a little bit of noise that's been introduced into the shot because it's, you know, it's got some noise in it. But that's how you add in synthetic light and you relight dark footage in seconds. I've also done it here on this clip as well. This is just a dark cabin in the woods. I'm going to click on it here and then I go to the controls panel. Here's the original shot. It's kind of just bleached out and dark and it just there's no contrast, nothing. It's kind of ugly, right? Left click added a curves feature. I've just made the curve here. So I've just made it a nice simple curve and presto. That's it. It's a completely different shot. It's relit. It looks professional. It can be done with anything guys. That's all you need to know. Thanks for watching. I have a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned. I'll be back soon.