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roto options?
Might have to do some intense 4-5 seconds of roto. Hands pulling weeds in a mulch bed. Need to cut out the arms/hands and lose the mulch bed background. I can animate masks in AE or Motion, but is there something better? Most roto I usually do is a simple animated mask cutting out objects and such for a transition. Not fingers and hands! The footage is 4k C300 MXF.
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You could try using the chromakeyer in combination with the color board to key out the mulch, or, it may be easier to generate a key on the hands/flesh tone, then make an intermediate mask or “hold-out matte” from that. Still finicky, but in a different way from roto.
Something that’s not always very intuitive is that you can deliberately push exposure, contrast, saturation, etc. in the color board to make a shot that looks horrible but keys really well. You can always restore the color changes later, after having extracted the hold-out matte. Also, you can invoke as many instances of the keyer and drawn mask as you need.
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Thanks for the suggestions. All good ideas. Unfortunately tried ’em. Apparently there’s a real good reason Hollywood hasn’t accepted brown screen chroma keying as a standard practice. Just not enough luma or chroma to deviate from skin, clothing, shadows and so on. We are editing around the issue. Or reshoot.
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“Limit color” Color picker on fleshtone: tried it?
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Yeah. Flesh tone is same as mulch tone.
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[Bret Williams] “Apparently there’s a real good reason Hollywood hasn’t accepted brown screen chroma keying as a standard practice. “
This was a really good laugh for me! Thanks!
Have you tried rotobrush in Ae?
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Good idea. But we’ve moved on. Reshoot tomorrow.
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Also suggest Mocha for After Effects.
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Or Slice-X/Track-X inside FCPX.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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