I am very very knew to Adobe After Effects (although have used Photoshop and Illustrator for years) and would like to ask for your help.
Right now I am trying to remove red eyes (from flash) from a short clip I recorded with my phone. Till now I have tried masking, motion tracking and color adjusting and non of it really worked for me sadly.
Maybe some of you have some experience with this difficulty of mine and can help me or want to give it a try themselves (her original eye color is green )
You can of course also tell me if you think that this will definitely not work with AE, so that I can go on with another project
I would add the footage to a new comp, split the layer on the first frame that has the red-eye problem, motion stabilize the shot using the left eye, Add a shape layer and use ellipses to cover the red-eye, then add a null, press "p" to reveal the position property of the null, select the stabilized layer and press "a" to reveal the anchor point of the footage, then add an expression to the position property of the null and drag the Pickwhip to the anchor point of the footage. The last step is to move the CTI to the first frame of the stabilized layer and parent both the stabilized layer and the replacement layer to the null. This will put the motion back in the footage and add the motion to the repair layer. You may have to put a couple of position keyframes on your shape layers to keep them lined up with the eyes. You will also probably have to do a little masking or create a track matte.
If you are new to After Effects you will have to type Stabilize Motion, parenting, and using animation presets in the search help field at the top right corner of AE and so some studying. If you know what you are doing then the entire project will take about 10 minutes.
I had a few minutes to kill while I was rendering a Premiere Pro project so I downloaded your video and made a micro-tutorial. Sorry about the audio. I didn't take the time to go get my mic. The most important part of this tutorial is where I split the clip so I am only working on the frames that need to be fixed.
I would add the footage to a new comp, split the layer on the first frame that has the red-eye problem, motion stabilize the shot using the left eye, Add a shape layer and use ellipses to cover the red-eye, then add a null, press "p" to reveal the position property of the null, select the stabilized layer and press "a" to reveal the anchor point of the footage, then add an expression to the position property of the null and drag the Pickwhip to the anchor point of the footage. The last step is to move the CTI to the first frame of the stabilized layer and parent both the stabilized layer and the replacement layer to the null. This will put the motion back in the footage and add the motion to the repair layer. You may have to put a couple of position keyframes on your shape layers to keep them lined up with the eyes. You will also probably have to do a little masking or create a track matte.
If you are new to After Effects you will have to type Stabilize Motion, parenting, and using animation presets in the search help field at the top right corner of AE and so some studying. If you know what you are doing then the entire project will take about 10 minutes.
I had a few minutes to kill while I was rendering a Premiere Pro project so I downloaded your video and made a micro-tutorial. Sorry about the audio. I didn't take the time to go get my mic. The most important part of this tutorial is where I split the clip so I am only working on the frames that need to be fixed.
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