VSX4 Ultimate and Exposure adjustments

[zforray]

I just grabbed the upgrade to Ultimate (already had VSX4) because the product page said "Advanced video stabilization and image enhancement - Fix even the shakiest video with proDAD Mercalli SE—rock-steady video stabilization, rolling-shutter correction and zoom/pan optimization. You can also adjust color, white balance, tone, exposure and more with multicore processor-accelerated color correction, Advanced DeNoise, Auto Exposure and Lensflare filters." and I need some of these features.

Now that I installed it, I need to find where they hide everything.

I found the Mercalli filter for the "shake, rattle and roll" stuff but I haven't found the "Auto Exposure" stuff and I need to turn down the exposure of this video I am working on (lots of light flares). From the above description/paragraph, I would have though the exposure stuff was under Mercalli, but I haven't found it.

What am I missing?

[Kingston]

Mercalli Stabilizer is from Prodad. That's all there is from Prodad in this version of Videostudio.

The color correction effects I think you want are under Darkroom.

[zforray]

Thanks for the suggestion but what do you mean by "Darkroom"? Where do I find this? I don't see such an option inside the Mercalli filter and don't see a filter called "Darkroom"?

[Ken Berry]

When you click on the icon 'FX' to the bottom right of the preview screen, you should see Darkroom listed as a category among all the other filters in the program. Or you should see the individual filters if you select ALL.

[zforray]

AHA - I wasn't looking at the FX pulldown menu as a category. Unfortunately, the "Auto Exposure" filter doesn't quite do what I need. It overcompensates and it doesn't really have true manual controls to adjust it.

Thanks for the help.

[Ken Berry]

What about one or more filters in the ALL category such as Brightness, Hue and Saturation...

[teknisyan]

Another resources in using Prodad, you can visit http://www.corel.com/content/vpk/vsx4/ProDAD.pdf