how to remove reflection from video

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September 16, 2022
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I made a video out of a plane landing at night that I'm editing in Premiere Pro. For whatever reason, the crew didn't dim the cabin lights and our reflections are extremely visible. I have attached a screenshot of the video. Is there any decent way of removing the reflection, or at least making it a little better?

I have two videos with this problem. For the first one I went as far as exporting the entire video into JPEGS and used lightroom to batch process it in sections, but that was a lot of work since my brush filters keep having to moive around the area I want to preserve. Even though I highly doubt it, I'm hoping someone knows a trick that is easier than what I did above.

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Steve Griffiths

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Hard to know how the footage you shot progressed but based on the image you posted - most of the bad reflection is in the top third of the frame. you could add a black solid on top of the image and create a soft edge mask (to the black solid) to darken just the top third of the image where most of the cabin reflection is visible.

patrickh27764550Author

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I tried everything you guys sugested. You can't get blood from a stone. The best I did was exporting every frame into still images and working on them in batches of 60 (59.94fps), which was very tedious and is not worth the trouble.