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  • Removing cables

    Posted by Ryan Santos on March 10, 2010 at 8:11 am

    In a green screen shoot on a flying kung fu master, how are the cables removed in post?

    What color should the cables be? God bless.

    John Sharaf replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Emre Tufekci s.o.a.

    March 10, 2010 at 3:40 pm

    The color of the cables will not be too much of an issue as you will not be able to pull a key from them. Depending on the angle of the shot you can use a cheap program like after effects to garbage matte and roto the wires.

    If there is am overlap of the cables and the actor and you cannot simply delete them as that will cause gaps in your video, you will need to use a program like Mokey from imagineer system.

    https://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mokey/

    PS:AE has very simple wire removal but it will not track properly.

    Emre Tufekci
    http://www.productionpit.com

  • John Sharaf

    March 10, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    They are erased or “painted out” frame by frame.

    JD

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