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Teleprompter Refection in Sunglasses
I shot a subject who insisted on wearing sunglasses and left me no choice but to deal with it in post. Subject is looking straight into the lens and moves around quite a bit. The reflection is pretty small but the video will be projected and probably be large enough to see the prompter clearly. Total length is under 60 seconds. Shot in 720 30p.
Do any of you smart, helpful people have a technique for tracking a patch over it? Needless to say, the client wants quick turnaround.
Many ThanksBob Lampel
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Are the eyes at all visible behind the sunglasses, or are they mirror shades. Mirror shades would be easier to fake in a comp.
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They are not visible.
Bob Lampel
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No visible eyes is a lucky break.
The first thing I would try would be to isolate the lenses using a keyer and just gaussian-blur the heck out of the selected area. That lets you keep the original color and some of the reactive reflection properties without having to recreate glass adn reflections from scratch, and it may be enough to hide your text issue.
The next and harder thing is to motion track the glasses and matte in new lenses. That sounds like a job for AfterEffects to me.
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Or you can do this in Motion just as easily as AE these days.
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