<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's very little you can do when you severely overexpose.<div><br><div>In Final Cut, you can duplicate the layer, create a mask over the washed out area, and try to use the 3 way color corrector to bring back what little detail remains.</div><div><br></div><div>Good lesson. Always underexpose. You can bring up the detail in a dark image, but once it's washed out, you can't get it back.</div><div><br></div><div> regards,</div><div><br></div><div> sb</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>On Apr 4, 2008, at 8:18 AM, <a href="mailto:JScal00@aol.com">JScal00@aol.com</a> wrote:<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font face="arial,helvetica"><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" family="SANSSERIF" size="2">Hello All,<br> <br> Mistakenly I recorded a stage performance with bright lighting which resulted in washed out faces. I've unsuccessfully tried correcting it with iMovie 7. I have Final Cut Pro (yet to use). Can anyone help me with bring the faces back? I have a Dual G5 running Leopard with 4 Gigs of ram. Any help would be very much appreciated.<br> <br> J. Scalise<br> Novice Videographer</font><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" family="SANSSERIF" size="2"></font><br><br></font></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>