Sunny-Day to Night conversion in AE, PAL at DVinfo.net

Andrew J Morin · March 10th, 2009, 09:17 AM

I'm doing VFX for a friend's short film. For a variety of reasons, I'd like to take some scenes from day to night. I've tried and re-tried Andrew Kramer's d2n methods, but can't seem to get a decent night-look. I think the problem is that the thing was shot in bright daylight. Given what I've got to work with, is there some combination of tweaks I could make that would be 'good enough' to help this pass for a night shot?

The jpeg is full-frame.

The tiff is cropped to keep the file size below a meg, as that seems to be the systems attachment limit. I've included it in case anyone is willing to try it out for me... ;-)

Andrew J Morin · March 10th, 2009, 03:37 PM

Where I'm at, too dark:

Andrew J Morin · March 10th, 2009, 06:49 PM

adjusted lighter

Kevin Myhre · March 12th, 2009, 08:56 PM

It's pretty much just a matter of playing around with it until you get it right. Here's one I did for a film I'm working on where most of it was shot during the day when it was supposed to be night. YouTube - Day For Night
It's not perfect but I think it works. I ended up having to make a couple layers and feathering parts to get some places a little darker and some lighter.

March 10th, 2009, 09:17 AM	#1
Andrew J Morin Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 140	Sunny-Day to Night conversion in AE, PAL I'm doing VFX for a friend's short film. For a variety of reasons, I'd like to take some scenes from day to night. I've tried and re-tried Andrew Kramer's d2n methods, but can't seem to get a decent night-look. I think the problem is that the thing was shot in bright daylight. Given what I've got to work with, is there some combination of tweaks I could make that would be 'good enough' to help this pass for a night shot? The jpeg is full-frame. The tiff is cropped to keep the file size below a meg, as that seems to be the systems attachment limit. I've included it in case anyone is willing to try it out for me... ;-) Attached Thumbnails

March 10th, 2009, 03:37 PM	#2
Andrew J Morin Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 140	Where I'm at, too dark: Attached Thumbnails

March 10th, 2009, 06:49 PM	#3
Andrew J Morin Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 140	adjusted lighter Attached Thumbnails

March 12th, 2009, 08:56 PM	#4
Kevin Myhre Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Rochester MN Posts: 68	It's pretty much just a matter of playing around with it until you get it right. Here's one I did for a film I'm working on where most of it was shot during the day when it was supposed to be night. YouTube - Day For Night It's not perfect but I think it works. I ended up having to make a couple layers and feathering parts to get some places a little darker and some lighter.