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Q: I’d heard that you can make basic adjustments to video clips in Lightroom, but I imported a clip and when I took it over to the Develop module for tweaking (I just wanted to add more con- trast), I got a warning that said, “Video is not supported in Develop.” Does my video need to be in a different format?
A: Nope. You’re just in the wrong place to edit video. Develop doesn’t support video, but here’s the weird thing—the Quick Develop panel in the Library mod- ule actually works on video (weird, I know).
Q: I’ve heard that RAW images edited with Capture One Pro look better than RAW images edited in Lightroom. Do they really have better technology for processing RAW images?
A: Nope. They just have different default settings. Light- room’s settings are very “flat” and they try not to influence what’s captured by your camera. Capture One “juices” their default RAW settings so their images look sharper by applying clarity and contrast, so they’re applying edits to the RAW image to make it look like it does. It’s not some magic math—they just cranked up some sliders that Lightroom has set to zero to give you a more accurate interpretation of the RAW image.
Martin Evening (well-known Lightroom guru and respected author), did a really eye-opening article about all this in the September 2016 issue of Photo- shop User magazine (as a member, you have access to that back issue on the KelbyOne site), and he not only breaks it all down, but also shows you how to configure Lightroom to get the same look for your RAW images (if you decide you like the juiced look, and if you do, there’s nothing wrong with that what- soever). I just think it’s important that people know what’s happening “under the hood,” and while you’ll sometimes read a comment like, “Capture One is better for editing RAW images,” now you’ll know why they’re saying that (and it’s probably because they haven’t read Martin’s article).
Discuss this Issue
Q: Do you know if and when Adobe will add lens correc- tion profiles to Lightroom Mobile?
A: Do I have good news for you—they already added it last July. Now, finding where to turn it on is another thing. It’s much easier in the latest version for iPhone, because it’s right there at the bottom of the editing win- dow. You’ll see an icon for Optics. Click on it and there’s a switch to Enable Lens Profile (if it finds one for your make and model, of course).
On the iPad, it’s in an entirely different place and works in a different way. It applies the lens correction profile on import, but you have to turn it on by clicking on the LR icon up in the top-left corner of the home
screen to bring out the left side panel. Then, go down and click on Import. Use the toggle switch to turn on Enable Corrections, which will be applied dur- ing import. Again, this only works if you have a support- ed camera and a matching lens profile, but that’s pretty much the same way it works in Lightroom desktop, so no big surprise there.
Q: Sometimes when I’m shooting, I’ll get a clipping warn- ing on my camera, but when I open that same image in Lightroom and look at the histogram, there’s no clipping whatsoever. Is Lightroom doing something to the image to stop the clipping?
A: Lightroom isn’t applying any changes to your file.
What’s happening is this: Even though you’re shooting
in RAW on your camera, your camera still shows you
the JPEG preview, which will clip the highlights before
the actual RAW file because the RAW file has a larger bit-depth and range. So, the clipping you’re seeing on
your camera is only the clipping on the JPEG preview.
When you open the RAW image in Lightroom, with its expanded range, the clipping is gone. ■ 055
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