Red eye reduction in video?

Algr wrote:

I know that still photo apps can fix this, but it is several minutes of video.

Are you using the entire "several minutes" in your edit?

If you are only using short pieces in the cut, have you considered exporting those selected areas of video out of FCP as Image Sequences, then removing the red eye on each frame in Photoshop (for example)?

You would then import the Image Sequence with the now corrected frames back into FCP for purposes of the edit.

You might try a test of this process - which basically is a from of rotoscoping - and see if it is worth the effort.

MtD

Could you post one or two screenshots where the problem is noticeable?

Depending on what we see, it might be possible to track and apply a correction with a mask, or not.

Have you tried just using a color balance? Most of the scene is predominantly red to begin with.

Color Balance should minimize the redness.

BTW - no masks.

(PS -- I don't know if FCPX's Color Balance can do this much... I use a custom color balance tool).

Yeah - sorry about that - I was in a hurry. That's the problem with not being there!

This is your original

I used scopes on this one to balance the color.

Here's the frame "cleaned" (sharpened with slightly reduced saturation with a little increased color contrast):

and here's the frame with a little bit of the "golden glow" put back in (with the same [custom] color balance effect):

... hard to tell there's a "red eye" problem ... (how did I do? [w/r/t/ red eye]. How weird is it to use a color balance tool to ADD a color cast!)

Still, no masks. (And no color board. The "cleaner" improves a couple of aspects that the balance tool doesn't handle. It's a complementary effect to the balance effect [and the two cannot be the same effect -- they just wouldn't work the same.])

If it's still a little 'aqua' - I have to apologize: I have a "hole" in my color vision in the green spectrum and I can't see it (which is ironic because I'm a tetrachromat). I guess the point is that the color balance tool I have is 100% customizable throughout the color range... so... you're the one in control. [It can be easily re-darkened as well to match the original "ambience" more closely.]

Most of the videos I can find on "red eye reduction in video" involve Lightroom and most of them are 10 years old or more. I can't imagine how to accomplish red eye reduction with masking and color board tools and make it look ... right. On the other hand, I'm only running 10.4.10 and have no access to the new tracker tools which might make this sort of thing easier to accomplish.

You can't just use a Color Mask and nothing else, because it will pick up anything with the same color anywhere in the frame; a color mask combined with a shape mask might work.

Would it be possible to post a short snippet of that video? You could post as unlisted on youtube and post a link here, or you could send it to yourself using wetransfer, and post the link here (in the latter case, it will probably be quickly deleted, but we'd still get it, at least some of us will).

Nice resumé! (I got the link.) Like your use of vignettes (blurs). I couldn't do your job!