EFX HDRI Comp

This plugin allows you to combine two separate clips shot with different exposures into a new clip that will contain detail from both.

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EFX HDRI Comp

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Adobe dropped Pixel Bender support in After Effects CS6 so this plugin will not work in CS6.

This plugin allows you to combine two separate clips shot with different exposures into a new clip that will contain detail from both.

Demo:

Output modes:

Compressed: the dynamic range of the scene is scaled down to fit in the visible range between 0.0 and 1.0,
Raw 32bit: the dynamic range remains unscaled which results in real 32bit HDR image with pixels brighter than pure white.

Samples:

Tutorial:

Download manual: EFX HDRIcomp 1.0 manual.pdf

Version history

1.0 – Initial release – Jan 2011

Last updated January 12th, 2012
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Tags: 32bit, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, HDR, HDRi, Pixel Bender

EFX

About the author

EFX is the work of Filip Kaczorek. Filip has been a CG artist since 2000. After having gone through every position at a VFX studio, he is currently a Technical Director and a VFX supervisor at polish VFX house: ATM FX. His passion is everything that happens behind the curtains of 3D and compositing applications and likes to think that he has a very technical approach to compositing.

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6 Comments

HHL (Reply to this comment)
February 3, 2012

Thanks so much! I think that the procomp will be the approach I will try. (I think that will work, right?) We’ll find out! Thanks soooo much!
HHL (Reply to this comment)
February 1, 2012

I love this plugin!

Quick question: I can see that you cannot “re-align” the two videos. So if they are not aligned at all…it’s a “no-go”.

Are you going to add that feature? Or do you have some ideas as to how to do it (align the videos) from a AE workflow perspective?

Thanks much! You’re AWESOME!
- EFX (Reply to this comment)
  February 2, 2012
  
  I don’t plan on adding this feature as the aligning process often is pretty complicated and it would make the plugin really bloated.
  That said, you’ve got everything you need in AE for this:
  - if you’re lucky – position, rotation and scale of one of the clips in a precomp,
  - if it’s worse – go with a corner pin or even Mesh deform.
  
  I guess you could even use the puppet tool for maximum flexibility, but I never tried it with a stereoscopic project
EFX (Reply to this comment)
January 12, 2012

There is still one problem – rolling shutter.
With these rigs the result is a diagonal line in oposite directions in both cameras – that’s where the images don’t align.
I already designed a similar rig but with cameras positioned horizontaly to eliminate this effect and a fixed io=0, let’s call it a hdri rig
We just have to build it and I’ll share the results
jake carvey (Reply to this comment)
January 12, 2012

Any tips on shooting perfectly aligned video of moving subjects for this technique? Half-silver mirror like a stereoscopic 3D rig?
- jake carvey (Reply to this comment)
  January 12, 2012
  
  haha – sometimes its helps to watch the video before commenting…

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