How to reduce glare on face

flashlight wrote on 2/17/2004, 7:19 AM

I am editing a video right now of a guy in a supermarket. In an ideal world he should have had some powder, but he didn't and there is a bit of glare on his face.......Does anyone have an idea on how to reduce the glare. Even a little bit would help.

Thanks,
Al

Comments

corug7 wrote on 2/17/2004, 8:14 AM

Rub some dirt on the screen.

Seriously, there are several ways to go about doing something like that, and it will just take some experamenting. Unfortunately, with VERY bright glare (pure white), video information is lost, so it is likely that you will not be able to recover some of the shading and details in that area. You might try fooling around with color correction (on the highlights), brightness and contrast, etc. I'm at work so I don't have my Vegas screen available to me, but I know that I have made some pretty bad video look much better. It won't be perfect, but better. I'll check back tonight and if there aren't any better answers, I'll check into it on my own computer.

Corey

BillyBoy wrote on 2/17/2004, 10:42 AM

If the glare blows out most of the color and you're stuck with an area that's almost pure white there isn't much you can do. Its like putting a skin tone bandage on your finger, you can still plainly see you have a bandage on. Try sampling the glare spot with Color Corrector Secondary and back off the saturation a tad on THAT filter. Also adjust the 3rd wheel on Color Corrector. Without seeing it, hard to suggest further.