Lights reflecting in glasses.

Hi there. Is there any way of getting rid of flood lights reflecting off of someone's glasses? I have interviewed someone who wears glasses and now that I can't redo the interview, I'm faced with trying to come up with an answer to this reflection problem. Is there any kind of "photo shop" button in iMovie or something I can use in iMovie that can help minimize flood light glare on glasses?
Thanks for any help.

Hi
No - that's why one must be very observant when recording. And during recording one can use a polariod filter on the lens to minimise this effect but to be repaired in after hand is only for pro's with FinalCut Pro and Motion and other elaborative tools - still far far from easy to deal with.
To fix glases one need a PhotoShop like tool and key-framing each frame for movements so that the correcting filter follow exactly - else it will be very disturbing - much more than the reflexes in first hand.
Most common way to minimiseing this problem is to
• use cut-aways - replace picture with any other relevant to the story while keeping audio continuing.
Yours Bengt W

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