make-up glare on woman's face - how do I tone it down?

Roddey_Phipps · Post by **Roddey_Phipps** » Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:31 pm

I'm guessing there is a pretty easy way to do this that I dont know about.

One of the women in my interview series of mp4 clips has some hot white shiny areas on her face from her make up.

What would be the best, and then the easiest, way of toning the white areas down without lowering the gamma of the overall clip?

thanks for any suggestions

aljimenez · Post by **aljimenez** » Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:43 pm

I don't think this is that easy to do. Try lowering contrast a bit, lowering saturation, lowering highlights (there are filters for all this).

Post by **lata** » Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:32 pm

Hi
One idea

Using two identical clips, one on the top track and one immediately below on overlay track
Create a mask (Black and White bmp to cover the face) maybe needs vignette applied.
You can add that to Chroma Key Masks Frames to apply to your overlay clip.

Apply FX filter to face to remove shiny areas.

If the face moves within the frame then you may have to track the face, which should be possible.

Roddey_Phipps · Post by **Roddey_Phipps** » Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:40 pm

cant track the face... too many movements... that would take forever.

good idea if they would sit still but they're all nodding their heads and shaking them and moving around a good bit

thanks anyway. something to think about.

Post by **jparnold** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:27 am

I haven't tried this (and maybe my version doesn't support it) but I thought that VS would allow you to track part of the image and then work on that. I think that it is called Multi-Point Motion Tracking.

Such as when you see motor vehicle number plate out of focus so that you can't read it or a persons face which is pixelated or out of focus so that you can't identify them. All those often are moving around.

I found this Youtube video but not sure if it will allow you to do want you want to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibo088TtdY4

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 2:00 pm

Specular Highlight recovery is extremely difficult in video post production. That's why the lighting techs have to really know what they're doing, along with excellent make-up artists. If a film crew or if there is no crew, just you, then you must have a firm understanding of lighting, or go through a nightmare in post-production as you're seeing. You might be able to pull something simple off in VS but it really is not a sophisticated enough program to deal with it. Even programs such as Avid, Premiere Pro, Final Cut, have a tough time with correcting specular highlights. It does involve masking and tracking, and be able to look at the differences in contrast, color, texture very closely. Generally specular highlights are blown out, meaning there's no information to recover beneath them. It's fun trying to recover them in photo post, which is dealing with just one image. Video you would need to do that for numerous images (frames), each being slightly different.

Have you tried Googling for some possible solutions? Fixing specular highlights in video Post Production

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