• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Removed unwanted objects from a Video Shot

  Posted by Willy Pimentel on November 28, 2012 at 1:16 am

  I hope I can explained this well. I have a Multicam Sequence in FCp x which one of the angles the cameraman did not see that the reporter had the wires of the mic sticking out. I have managed to cover that troubled angled for the most part but I still need it in some instances I want to find out if there was a way to deal with this issue?

  

  Willy Pimentel
  Motion Graphics Editor
  Macbook Pro 2011 thunderbolt/ TBolt Displey/ 2 SSD Hds /lacie Tbolt

  T. Payton replied 13 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jari Innanen

  November 28, 2012 at 7:45 am

  Depending of the shot maybe a shape mask like SliceX from Core Melt should help some:
  https://www.coremelt.com/products/slicex.html
  There is a 15 day trial available.
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  T. Payton

  November 28, 2012 at 8:46 pm

  Ouch that is a very big thing to patch. Even to patch a still in Photoshop would take quite a bit of work and repainting. Unless you have a hollywood budget for some work with Mocha Pro or frame by frame cloning, I’m thinking you just need to crop the shot so that the Mic doesn’t show.

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  T. Payton
  OneCreative, Albuquerque
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  Bill Davis

  December 4, 2012 at 12:00 am

  Yep,

  Either bite the bullet and rotoscope it out – or you’re gonna have to do something quick and dirty – like blow the frame up or re-frame it enough to push the problem off screen right and fill the rest of the frame with something else while those shots are up.

  There are dozens of generally audience transparent cliche’s available from “content emphasizing” bullet points to B-roll that you can composite into frame left to justify pushing the reporter right far enough to lose the mic unit.

  YMMV.

  Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.
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  T. Payton

  December 5, 2012 at 4:29 pm

  I just saw this little tutorial on Mocha Pro and made me think about your shot.

  https://www.imagineersystems.com/videos/join-layers/view?utm_source=December+News+letter+2012&utm_campaign=May+8%2C+2012&utm_medium=email

  This is showing how much work it is to track something as intricate as different planes on a subject. This is an example tracking a beard. Now granted this is incredible fast compared to doing it by hand (and probably more accurate, at least more accurate than my painting), it is still very involved.

  I totally agree with Bill that you should do your best to move it out of frame.

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  T. Payton
  OneCreative, Albuquerque

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