Need assistance, over exposed footage making colors to blue etc.

I am in the middle of editing together a demo for a charter company. I filmed the footage on DSLR 1080 HD and now looking at the footage everything is just over exposed, footage was shot side so like one half of the sky is white the half is blue... I'm having real trouble in correcting this issue, everything I do makes it look worse. There must be someway I can correct the color of this footage??
Pictures are below:

Any assistance will be much appreciated.
Thanks a bunch
Paul

And in future, use an ND filter.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

Hi,

I have posted below the 3 pics corrected with FBmn Software's Exposure plug-in. I have chosen settings according to what I found was optimal, but this is kind of subjective, and you might try other settings on your own.

The sky can be restored on image1 and image2, but as mentioned by Stephen, the left-hand side part of the sky in image3 is definitely burned. R/G/B are all at 255 there, so no hope to restore any kind of blue I am afraid. Except maybe with an alpha mask to combine a layer of blue (might be tough to adjust on a moving landscape...)

(by the way, JPG compression + resolution downsizing to 480x270 in original images make the resulting pics pretty bad quality).

Hope this helps,
Frederic










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Awesome thanks guys for the help!
I've never really tried any 3rd party plugin's before. Always been kinda hesitant not knowing for sure how it'll work or crash Vegas, I've had issues like that in the past. But I'll try out all that was recommended. Thanks again everyone!

I notice it's not a free plugin... is here any plugin's that are free and also good? I'm kinda tight right now on $$

What Steve said is true guys. If it's washed out to the point it's white, you have no way of getting back what may have been there, like clouds. You can use the color curve, highs and boost blue to get the white to look blue, but all other white in the shot will get the same effect.

If you have After Effects you could track the matte with Mocha and replace the whole sky. Depends on how much time you want to put into it. I'd probably reshoot.

Thank you everyone for all your knowledge and help...
I ended out using color corrector, color corrector 2 then I adjust the Limit Lumiance then I added and adjusted the contrast and looks pretty good.. no more blown out whites and that blue tint...

I'm defiantly looking more into 3rd party plugin's as was suggested, but for now this will do the job. I sent the videos in yesterday and the owners of the company LOVED them and actually hired me as their in house videographer.. so I guess I did something right..

Thanks again for EVERYONE's help it was very much appreciated!