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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 46
Threads: 14
Joined: May 2013
I'm processing a 1550-frame sequence, and when I got to the visual deflicker stage I noticed that the pink curve still took the shape characteristic of the HG transitions, so I wondered whether I had forgotten to save earlier in the process. I started from scratch, first removing the XMP files to make sure nothing was 'dirty'.
However, after applying the HG wizard and saving the sequence, this time I loaded the metadata for the full sequence in Lr, then I found a pair of HG frames and had a look at them. If I've understood the process, I think they should have already looked the same brightness, yes? But there was a noticeable difference.
Here's the HG curve after running the wizard:
Should the vertical lines in the curves be the same height??
Here are the frames in the list:
And here is how it looked in LR:
It's probably hard to tell from the comparison view, but if I switch back and forth I can see that the second frame is brighter than the first.
Have I misunderstood how this works? Maybe I need to use the 'stretch' slider in the HG wizard... but I never had to before.