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My name is Serge and welcome back to my channel.
Today, we’ll learn how to change eye color in video,
animate it to follow the subject’s eyes,
and have a little fun with it,
changing it to a different color whenever our model blinks.
First thing we need to do is make a copy of our clip.
Hold down the option key,
and drag up on the clip to make a copy.
Make sure it lines up with your bottom clip.
Skim your clip, and every time the model’s eyes close,
press Command B to blade it.
We’ll start off with and end with the original eye color,
so command click the first and the last clip
above your timeline, and press delete.
Place your playhead over the first clip,
where the model’s eyes are fully open,
select the clip
and head up to the inspector window.
Select the color inspector,
and from the dropdown menu, select color board.
Zoom in on your viewer,
and drag the little red box until the model’s eye is visible.
Make sure it’s nice and big.
Back in the color board, make sure the color tab is selected.
Select the shadows puck,
drag it over to the color you want to use,
and drag up to add that color to your clip.
You’re adding color to your entire clip,
so everything turns that color.
Don’t worry about that for now,
we’ll take care of it in the next step.
Do the same thing with your mid tone, and highlights pucks.
The higher up you drag the pucks,
the more color is added,
so what I found works best is just adding a little bit to the shadows,
a bit more to mid tones, and even more to the highlights.
Next, open the effects browser,
and add a draw mask to your top clip.
In the inspector window,
change the shape type to B- Spline.
This will give you nice round corners,
perfect for masking out round objects.
In the viewer, add control points
to the inside of the eye,
staying a little ways away from the edges.
Try and keep the distance from the edge
consistent for every control point.
Click on the first control point to close your mask.
Back in the inspector,
drag up the feather slider, until the entire iris has color in it.
If needed, adjust your control points
to make sure none of the color bleeds through
onto the eyelids or eye lashes.
Once you’re happy with it,
in the inspector, add key frames to the control points,
and all the transform parameters.
Since Final Cut Pro does not have auto tracking,
we have to do this part manually.
Go back through your clip,
one frame at a time,
and reposition the mask to cover your subject’s eye.
If you start seeing some of the color on the eyelids,
adjust your control point’s
so the mask only affects the iris.
When you get to the frame where the model’s eye is closed,
go back to the previous frame,
and in the inspector,
add a keyframe to the fill opacity slider.
Go back to the frame where the eye is closed,
and bring the fill opacity slider all the way down.
Since we started tracking our clip in the middle,
we need to go back to the start point
and track forward from there.
With your clip selected in the timeline,
press Control V to show video animation.
This is where you’ll see all your keyframes.
Move the playhead to the first keyframe,
and track forward from here,
one frame at a time, adjusting your mask.
We now have to do the same thing to the other eye.
Make a copy of your top clip,
and layer it above the first copy.
In the inspector window,
click the reset arrow in the Draw Mask box,
change the shape type to B-Spline again,
and add a mask inside the second eye.
Add some feather to soften the edges,
add keyframes to the control points and transform parameters,
and once again,
go through your clip one frame at a time,
adjusting the mask.
Here’s what we have so far.
Now, to change the model’s eye color when she blinks,
select the second clip
and add a color correction to it,
selecting a different color this time.
Add a draw mask to this clip,
feather the edges,
and add keyframes to your control points and transform parameters.
Go through your clip,
and adjust the mask position to follow the model’s iris.
Repeat these steps for the second eye,
and any more clips you have in your timeline.
This will take some time, but when you’re done,
you end up with this cool effect.
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Thanks for watching,
and I’ll see you back here next week.