Fix eye contact in a video

When you read from a script or look at your screen, your eyes sit just below the lens. Eye Contact nudges your gaze back towards the camera. It is a restrained geometric correction, not a generated pair of eyes, and it is labelled beta.

Apply it

1. Choose Enhance > Eye Contact (Beta)… (⇧⌘I), or press Eye Contact in the Enhance rail.
2. Choose a Correction strength:
   • Subtle, small corrections with the most natural motion;
   • Balanced, a useful default for reading near the camera;
   • Strong, for a larger gap between your screen and the camera.
3. Press Generate Eye Contact. Rooster tracks your eyes and renders a corrected copy on your Mac.
4. Compare Original with Eye Contact, then press Use corrected version, or Try different strength.

What it does and does not do

• It corrects the largest face it can see.
• It skips blinks and strong head turns, and smooths movement between frames.
• It works best when you read close to the camera. It may do little when your eyes are hidden by glare, mid-blink, or in profile.
• It needs a picture: a project whose media is sound alone cannot use it.

Mac camera effects… in the same sheet opens macOS's own Portrait, Studio Light and Center Stage controls, which apply while you record rather than afterwards.

Change or remove it

Select the main recording and open Adjust. The Effects band lists Eye Contact with a button to adjust it and a bin to remove it, which puts back the version underneath.