Using The Video Histogram To Keep Detail in the Highlights

I made a couple of fun videos of my kids sledding this past weekend. Last year’s video of the kids sledding I totally blew out and clipped the whites in the snow because I was exposing for their skin and their dark jackets, this time I wanted to try exposing for the snow. Exposing in the snow is hard, as a rule of thumb I usually have to over expose by a full stop. This time I wanted to protect the snow so I still had detail and then in post