Any way to fix Canon DSLR AI SERVO footage that keeps refocusing?

[Alan Lloyd]

Shooting with autofocus is rarely a good idea for that reason.

Is it something you can reshoot?

[Doland Ruiz]

lol damnit. No. Thing is, it happened before and I thought I turned off the tracking for that shot but I guess i didn’t. I was just hoping there was some magical way to reduce it since it seems only proper magic can fix something like that. Hopefully they don’t mention it. but thanks

[Hirum Horkweller]

You cannot “fix” a bad focus but maybe you can cut around it and make it look like you did that on purpose. Who knows, maybe you can use this trick a few times throughout the piece and make it more interesting.

For example:

I did a commercial project once that required CG, but the CG was really bad so we threw a ‘bad video’ effect over it to mask how fake it looked. We dropped the effect over a few non CG shots too, and used audio cues to make it look deliberate. No one ever suspected we even used CG at all.

There is always a creative solution 😉