HDR Video Effect

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Pull detail out of a clip’s shadows and highlights for the crunchy, textured look of tone-mapped HDR photography. Dark areas open up, bright skies calm down, and brickwork, clouds, and faces gain local contrast.

Shadows and highlights

Shadow Recovery lifts dark regions more than the midtones. Highlight Compression brings bright regions down. Together they squeeze a high-contrast scene into a flatter range, which Local Detail then brings back to life with texture.

Local detail

Local Detail works at two neighbourhood sizes tied to the frame dimensions, so it adds punch to fine texture and broad regions at the same time. High values give the heavy HDR look of the 2010s; around 30% it reads as clarity rather than an effect.

Motion and noise

The effect is computed per frame. Compression noise in dark, flat areas gets amplified along with real detail and can crawl. Clean, well-exposed sources give the best result; lower Shadow Recovery when shadows start to boil.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this create real HDR video?

No. It is a tone-mapping look on a standard video. The export is regular SDR, and detail that the camera clipped to white or black cannot come back.

What does Local Detail do?

It compares each pixel with the average of a small and a large neighbourhood and pushes it away from both. Fine texture and broad tonal regions gain contrast together. The neighbourhoods scale with the frame, so the preview and export match.

Why does the footage get noisier?

Shadow recovery and local contrast raise dark, noisy areas along with the detail. Lower Local Detail or Shadow Recovery on low-light footage.

What happens to the audio?

It is copied into the export unchanged when the container can hold its codec, and re-encoded when it cannot. A note under the export button says which happened.

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HDR Effect

Recover shadows, compress highlights, raise multi-radius local contrast, and control color saturation in one image.

Sharpen Video

Sharpen every frame of a video with an unsharp mask. Set amount, radius, and halo limit; the radius scales with the output size, so the preview matches the export. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Matte Video Effect

Give every frame of a video a faded, film-style matte look: lifted blacks, recovered midtone contrast, and softened highlights. Set fade, contrast, and strength. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Cyanotype Video Effect

Print every frame of a video as a cyanotype: Prussian blue shadows, pale paper highlights, and a fixed paper texture of stains and fibre. Set pigment color, exposure, contrast, and depth. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Orton Video Effect

Screen a blurred, brightened copy of every video frame over the sharp original for a dreamy glow that keeps detail. Set blur radius, glow amount, soft layer exposure, saturation, and shadow protection. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Redscale Video Effect

Remap every frame of a video to the redscale film palette: deep red shadows, orange midtones, and yellow highlights. Set redscale amount, yellow highlights, blue retention, exposure, and contrast. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Aerochrome Video Effect

Give a video the false-color infrared look of Kodak Aerochrome: green foliage turns red or magenta while skies stay blue, with film grain that moves on every frame. Set profile, intensity, foliage, and red bloom. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Bokeh Video Effect

Defocus every frame of a video and turn bright highlights into round or polygonal bokeh discs. Set highlight threshold, disc diameter, aperture blades, background defocus, and disc brightness. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Disposable Camera Video Effect

Give a video the look of a cheap point-and-shoot film camera: harsh flash bloom, faded warm print color, light leaks, vignette, and grain and dust that move on every frame. Set flash strength and film finish. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Toy Camera Video Effect

Give a video the look of a plastic toy camera: oversaturated color, crushed shadows, color shift in the corners, and a heavy vignette. Set saturation, crushed shadows, corner color shift, and vignette. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Anaglyph 3D Video Effect

Split every frame of a video into offset color channels for the red and cyan look of anaglyph 3D glasses. Set the separation distance and angle, color pair, and ghosting. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Bleach Bypass Video Effect

Give a video the bleach bypass film look: desaturated color with a silver layer of hard contrast, as used on war films and gritty thrillers. Set bypass strength, silver density, color retention, and contrast. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.