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Morphing Green Screen
Hey,
I checked out several other forums on here and else where but none seemed to be too helpful. Is there a quick and dirty way to do morph that’s free?
Here’s how I what I want to do: I have a green screen interview and the subject needs to be cut up. Luckily it was shot with higher resolution than we’re outputting it to, so we can scale up a bit without too much loss. I think if it’s quick and dirty the motion blur on the scale up will cover the dirtiness/mask the edit. So it can be dirty, and I’d really prefer something quick so I can get the job done under budget. Any suggestions?
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Morphing from the same shot of an MCU of a guy. It’s nothing spectacular, I just hate doing a bunch of jump cuts
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The quick and dirty way of morphing in AE is to use Mesh distort.
Overlap the layers by whatever number of frames you need the morph to happen (I would recommend a lower number of frames, thus a quick morph). Lower the top layers opacity to 50%. Keyframe the distortion mesh at the beginning of the transition and go to the last frame- distort to fit the bottom layer. Apply Mesh warp to the bottom layer- keyframe at the last frame of the transition, then move to the first frame of the transition and distort the bottom layer to match the top one. Animate top layer opacity from 100% to 0% for the length of the transition and you’ve got yourself a simple morph.
You will have to tweak the mesh rows/columns and the way the different parts of the frame are distorted to see what works best.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Awesome. I’ll try that, thanks
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And, if that doesn’t do it for you, try this tutorial.
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