Removing Red-Eye from video - Need tips.

Red eye is the result of a light source on axis with the lens of the camera illuminating is the back of the eye through the cornea. You can only do this with video if you have the light on the cam (so it moves with the camera) or directly behind the cam if the shot is locked off.

I suppose you could open up Color or use the 3 way CC in FCP and isolate on the red (limit effect) and map it to black or grey. If there are other reds in the scene, you'll need to mask the correct areas.

Never done this but don't see a reason why it couldn't work.

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Tangier Clarke1 wrote:
I don't know how this was achieved. I am surprised too. I've never seen this happen in video. It was shot in a university auditorium. Now I have to figure out a way to clean it up.

No, you don't. Ask for a reshoot. Life is short.

How did you get this artrifact? A light mounted on the camera? Stylistic decision? Is it worth the trouble?

The only way I know of to do this is to motion track each eyeball separately but don't take my word for it. Give the forums a few more days to see what others suggest.

bogiesan

You could try keying on the specific red color and fill it in with black.