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“Mirror” Video filter
Does anyone know of a filter in Final Cut that will make a layer appear like it’s being reflected in a mirror? Obviously I’m not talking about the “mirror” filter that splits the image in two…I want to make an image look like it’s being reflected in a mirror…I guess it should look kind of blurry, but all the blur filters I tried seem too extreme. Any suggestions?
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That’s not a filter. That’s careful preproduction planning and a good compositor.
You need to shoot both angles on set.
If the mirror is covered with greenscreen or bluescreen, you can key it out & add the reverse image back in. If not, you’ll have to rotoscope the mirror & add the reverse image.
And if the cameras aren’t locked off perfectly, you’ll have to stabilize or track one or both images to match them together.
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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Thanks Arnie.
Of course I should have started out by saying that we’re not actually shooting anything…except an actress against a green screen. All the background images I already have in place. That’s why I was wondering if there’s any filter I could use to make the image that I put inside a mirror actually look like it’s coming from a mirror…some effect to set it apart from everything surrounding it, like a blurriness, or maybe what looks like a coat of dust (since this is supposed to be an old mirror).
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