Adding a reflection to sunglasses

[Laurie Turner]

I know Andrew Kramer touches the subject a little bit on his “Magic Glass” tutorial
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=86

[Bart Straman]

hi there,

you can just put your video over your sunglases (drop opacity to center). then use the mask tool on your videolayer to create the same shape as your glases. when that’s done. you can play with the video-layer transfer modes like”add” or “lighten” or whatever looks good. for a more realistic you could do some tricks seen on videocopilot tutorials, or think some of yourself. it depends on the lighting of your glases and your footage.

Bart

[Danny Hays]

Another way is to cut some blue paper in the shape of the glasses lenses and tape them over the lenses. then Use the Keylight plugin to key out the blue and let the unlying track show through, dropping the opacity of the refection track and shrinking it down as thats what the reflection of the bow in the lens would do. The reason I say blue is the maniquin is already in front of a green screen right?

Danny Hays

[Samuel Gómez]

That’s a very good solution… I didn’t thought about that, I think I’m gonna do that and then put ’em a nice effect so they look more realistic. Thanks!.

[Brian Lynn]

Doesnt have to be blue… You could always mask the glasses to isloate their key separate from the green sceen and use green for the key on both. All depends on what your light is like, and what colors your other subjects in the shot have in them.