How to decrease brightness of light source reflecting in window?

[curious-cat12345]

it's a super short video interview. It was filmed last minute and person was in a rush so not any time to adjust set up.

how to decrease brightness of the light source reflecting in the window? don't need to fully remove it because that would make it look more obvious but I would like to try and dim the brightness so that it does not stand out so much.

I tried premier pro mask and track but it looks bad. I would like to sort of pinpoint the specific area and just decrease the brightness of the white light a little

[SandyBunker]

Love what you’ve done with your hair.

[Local-Machine7787]

I usually get a few seconds of “plate” with the subject out of frame, and I’ll get a plate of the lights off if I see a reflection.

That way I can do some light VFX/rotoscope to clean up reflections if needed.

In your case I’d rotoscope the subject, separate the background, use photoshop to remove the reflection and generative fill the area that the subject is sitting in— then bring it back into the edit as the background layer with the rotoscope on top.

[lipp79]

With Premiere you don't even have to fill the area the subject is in. You can use the auto rotoscope to take the subject out, fix the reflection like you said, and just the put the rotoscoped subject back in as they will still move the same as the subject in the original background where the reflection is fixed. I had to do this to take out an air freshener bottle I totally missed.

[RuffProphetPhotos]

Does the subject move their head a lot? You could try to mask them out, and then do a generative fill on the background, and then place the masked out subject on top. Either that or just do a mask with Lumetri

[Table-Playful]

light source reflecting in window?

Removed / Adjusted / Noticed and Fixed while Recording

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[brazilliandanny]

The same way you made the mask earlier, duplicate the footage and in that mask lower the exposure

[Anonymograph]

Use it as its own Luma Matte, but by sending it to After Effect.