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Reflection Removal????
This may be stupid, but I am fairly new to After Effects so I am going to ask anyways. I just shot 45 mins worth of footage (edited) for a client. They love the footage but because the talent had to be well lit on a green screen with improper spacing between talent, green screen and lights (our shooting space is too small) there is a reflection in his glasses. He tends to move his head around as he talks and the client finds the reflection distracting.
I was wondering if there was a fairly simple or at least easier technique to remove or tone down the reflection so its less noticeable with out having to animate a mask frame by frame. Some of the footage is 2-3 min long takes that would be excruciating to fix. Any suggestions would be great, thanks.
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It’s not worth doing but you will be attempting to motion track an object that will obscure the reflections.
Motion tracking is accurate and easy to perform bu understanding how to use the targets and apply them to an object takes practice. If it’s important enough, you will have to budget about two hours for each clip. You will motion track the fglasses and then transfer the data to an object. That object will need to be manually created, moved, blurred, skewed or otherwise adjusted for each major change in head angle.
It’s impossible to make this look good, IHNSHO. It would be far easier and the end project will much more elegant if you just reshoot it.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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did you describe the reflection? Can’t recall. If it’s just some green stuff, you might be able to just mask off a copy of the footage and apply a color change filter to the offending pixels.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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The reflection is from of the lights, when he moves his head back and to his right you catch it in his glasses. Timewise it will make more sense to reshoot. Thanks for your input I appreciate it.
Mike
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