Professional Video Retouching (hair, skin, etc)

[Rusty Shackleford]

yeah, it depends what your going for.
i’ve been able to tweak the cosmo plugin to get some pretty good results though.

Brandon Morris
Co-owner/Creative Director
http://www.fugostudios.com

RED Scarlet, Canon T2i, Panasonic HPX-170
Nikon Primes
Mac Pro 12-core 64GB RAM (2011)
Mac Pro 8-core 12GB RAM (2008)
Mac Pro 4-core 8GB RAM (2006)
13″ Macbook Pro (Mid 09) 8GB RAM Lion

[Jim Tierney]

Beauty Box has been used on many national shows and commercial spots, including a spot for Avena skin care products:

https://digitalanarchy.com/beautyVID/gallery.html#faq14

It creates a very realistic look that is very customizable. This includes multiple parameters for maintaining skin detail and texture. You can also render out the skin tone mask and use that as a Track Matte for other effects. For example, on the photography side of things, where extreme realism is necessary (video can be a bit more forgiving than stills), we have many photographers that use Beauty Box as a base layer and then add in a texture layer and/or additional retouching on top of it. This technique could certainly be used for video.

There are a lot of people doing excellent work using Beauty Box and other retouching plugins. Most people have time/budget restrictions that make frame-by-frame retouching difficult and such methods rarely produce significantly better results that would justify the significant extra expense.

cheers,
Jim
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Jim Tierney
President
Digital Anarchy
https://www.digitalanarchy.com

[Rod Xander]

Hey,
Sounds like you got a job at some “commercial house,” but you don’t know how to do what they need of you.
Clearly you got the job by some fluke, since you are obviously unqualified to fulfill the job requirements.
That’s cool, but keep it real man.
Instead of insulting the people that offer help, because of their “inexperience,” maybe you can take a more humble approach to their advice even if it doesn’t equate to the specific needs of your job assignment (which only you are getting paid for). Perhaps you can thank them for the advice rather than insult them for not knowing the answer you are trying to find 🙂

Rod