• Adobe After Effects

  removing background from old B&W footage

  Posted by Rony Sokolov on February 13, 2016 at 7:27 pm

  Hi,

  I have several short clips from B&W old films. I need to remove the background of these clips. I’m new to AE, but have experience with softwares like FCP and Resolve. Downloaded AE few days ago and tried several things. Tried to use the Roto Brush tool to remove the background of my footage (without knowing much about it), but couldn’t get satisfactory results (the outline keeps changing slightly). I attach a screenshot of the footage. My question here: is it possible? I’m willing to invest time and learn how to do it but would like to know if old footage, in general, is still workable (lower resolution- 640×480 and B&W).
  If yes, I’d be grateful to get some tips here (maybe the Roto brush is not the right approach)
  This is my main “task” for AE – pretty much determine if I purchase it or not.

  Many thanks

  

  Macbook Pro 10.9.5, 2.6GHz Intel Core i7.
  Final Cut Pro 7

  Rony Sokolov replied 10 years, 6 months ago 54,849 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rony Sokolov

  February 13, 2016 at 7:45 pm

  Thanks Dave 🙂

  Macbook Pro 10.9.5, 2.6GHz Intel Core i7.
  Final Cut Pro 7

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