> red eye / light reflection eye / reduction in SV12

[Mike Kujbida]

A full res screen shot or a short piece of the video would help us to help you.

[Thoreau Bakker]

Thanks Mike,

here is a little screen grab to give you an idea of my challenge..

Any tips on a filter, or something else that could make the glow eyes less distracting would be great!

-t.

[Bob Peterson]

You can’t fix the video. It’s overexposed. There is nothing to recover. You can use a curve and pull down only the high whites (the upper right corner of the curve). You will have to put a second point on the curve to prevent dimming the mid range and low tones. That would make it grayer and less obvious.

You could replace the blown out pupil with, for example, a photoshop image, but that would require a LOT of keyframing to keep the still image in the right place on the video.

[Thoreau Bakker]

Thanks for the reply Bob,

I had thought about key framing.. and as you say, that would be a mission and a half!

I will try your curve suggestion. Much appreciated!

-t.

[Mark Barton]

You could try a secondary color corrector and apply that to an oval mask, if you are using SVP 12. I tried it very quickly and it looked like it would need more work, but possibly less than all that keyframing. I was thinking if you could replace the bright highlight in the eyes with something more subdued it would be less distracting.

[Frank Stevn]

Try the chroma keyer by selecting the white color of the eyes. Place a dark color background (not black) under.

[Thoreau Bakker]

hey Guys,

I ended up just cutting out the 2 of 11 clips, as they needed the video really fast.

I appreciate all the great suggestions though and will go back and experiment with all of them. Good tools to have for future productions. Much appreciated!!

-t.

[Phil Seymour]

Not of help, but have you thought of making vampire movies: 🙂

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