Hello guys,
I took a 40 min long shot of me talking about some topic but I forgot to turn off the camera autofocus point to get a clean HDMI output so now it looks like this: 😂
Is there a way to remove it? The autofocus point doesn't move but my head moved around so the relative "background" to each mark isn't the same throughout the video.
It will save me a lot of time if I can remove it. I don't want to re-shoot the whole thing.
Any input is appreciated.
Regards,
Acon
I don't think that even the Remove module in Mocha Pro could fix this because the Remove module aims to remove unwanted moving objects against a preferably static background.
Hiding the autofocus frame by methods including blurring the autofocus frame by a number of methods will no doubt be compromised as your head/eyes move under that blurring - as well as being a PITA to keyframe over 40 minutes if necessary. NewBlueFX's has a really good reoplacement FX called 'Cut-Away' but it relies on replacing the target problem area with a nearby area - not ideal if part of an eye is replaced by an offset image of the same eye. BorisFX has an FX called 'Wire Remover' in their Image Restoration Unit that you may want to test in the free trial offer but that approach will likely also include a slight blurring as the affected pixels cross over facial features such as eyebrows and the eyes.
Unfortunately, a re-shoot may the easiest though most unpalatable solution.
A quick and dirty try might be to take a few seconds of video with yourself in the same position.
Then put it on a track above your main problem track. Then mask out the 4 items, corners of focus points to only show through the new 4 pieces of your face that has no 4 pieces, focus points. It depends on how much your head moved.
You would have to probably make several slightly different small video clips to go on top track and then copies of them. Probably quicker to just redo the original video.
You could shorten all of this by putting lots of shots of some items relating to the topic interspersed within the main video so showing as little as possible of yourself.
You could shorten all of this by putting lots of shots of some items relating to the topic interspersed within the main video so showing as little as possible of yourself.
A great suggestion. A talking head for 40 minutes - no matter how interesting the topic - is something I would exit on YT in minutes.
@Acon Sorry but I've got to agree with the others & that a reshoot might be the easiest way,
I have Mocha Pro & agree with Dexcon that although it could remove the black marks by isolating the areas with a spline/mask & replacing the area with other frames the result wouldn't be good because faces are so dynamic, I have a program called Silhouette that also can remove, In there you can mask a certain area & paint or clone from an adjacent area, it'd be better but would require a lot of work, poss painting/cloning every other frame.. you can also do an 'Inpaint' that uses adjacent areas to cover the black (that's heal in my photo editor program), it's similar to the BCC Wire removal but as with Mocha the result wouldn't be good,
I had a play with a mask & blurs, colour etc.. nope. I'd reshoot it.
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This is Silhouette Inpaint on your picture.
Looks ok on plain areas.
But when it would cross an eye it would show as a blurred mark
Thanks for all the input.
I want to try this method:
(1) Render the whole video as a still image sequence (which will produce over 140k images).
(2) Use Photoshop to batch process all the images with the Content-Aware Fill feature.
(3) Re-generate a video with all the images in Vegas Pro.
Is that a plan?
However, I got stuck on the first step. I couldn't find a way to render the video as images in Vegas Pro.
Any thoughts?
Thanks but in my VP 18 I don't see the image sequence option in the render window. This is strange because according to this old thread, even the old VP 13 has it:
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/render-to-image-sequence--102892/
@Acon Hi, I made a post but deleted it because it was at the same time as @john_dennis's, he beat me by a minute 😒
This is what I posted, VP18 with the Image sequence option, check that Filters at the top is Off.
hanks but in my VP 18 I don't see the image sequence option in the render window. This is strange because according to this old thread, even the old VP 13 has it:
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/render-to-image-sequence--102892/
@Acon Note that it could be a bug which is only fixed in VP19+: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vegas-pro-19-missing-image-sequence-as-a-render-option--133068/
So you may have to try all the suggestions in this thread...
@Acon said: "according to this old thread, even the old VP 13 has it:
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/render-to-image-sequence--102892/"
Vegas Pro 13-453 does have it. Until it doesn't.
Look at the Vegas Pro 22 trial.