Filtering out glare on eyeglasses

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Filtering out glare on eyeglasses

I shot some video under less-than-perfect conditions and my subject was wearing eyeglasses. The light from a large window was behind me and his eyeglasses have quite a bit of glare that is difficult to ignore. Is there anything I can do to reduce it? Any filters that can be used? I'm not very experienced with FCP so please spell it out for me if you can. Thanks.

imac 24 Intel, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 29, 2009 12:47 PM

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Answer 1

Zak Ray

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Jan 29, 2009 12:50 PM in response to Neil Lazar

If the information isn't there to begin with, there's no way to recover it. You can try playing around with the 3-way Color Corrector (modify the 3 sliders underneath the wheels), but that'll affect your entire image.

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Andy Neil

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Jan 29, 2009 12:53 PM in response to Zak Ray

Actually the color corrector might be your best shot. You can limit the CC effect to the color and luminance of the glare. Check your manual under color correction 3-way for tips on how to limit the effect.

Andy

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D Gilmore

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Jan 29, 2009 1:05 PM in response to Neil Lazar

Neil,

Another suggestion would be to download Andy's Region Blur
http://web.mac.com/andymees/FreeandEasy/main/main.html

Then match the tint to the non-reflected portion of the glasses.

Depending on how much the subject moves you may need to do some key-framing

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Neil Lazar Author

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Jan 29, 2009 1:15 PM in response to D Gilmore

thanks. I'll try it.

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Answer 5

Neil Lazar Author

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Jan 29, 2009 1:16 PM in response to Zak Ray

thanks so much.

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