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Rotobrush stops after X frames?
I’ve been trying to use the rotobrush and it works fine. I understand the concept of drawing the skeleton of the figure. It works fine, but when I push play to process subsequent frames it stalls after only a few and then goes into play mode sans any roto data (pink line dissapears). Is there a way to get it to stop when it loses the data? At this point I just hit stop asap and frame advance back back back and add more brushes.
Thanks.
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it sounds like rotobrush is working the way it’s designed.
Rotobrush requires you to work in increments of 10 frames, check the roto, then work 10 more frames. You can change the span, but I wouldn’t recommend that because your roto might get messed up and you end up doing more work going back and fixing it.
Rotobrush isn’t that intutive, adobe has a tutorial and help on using it:
Some Adobe
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/digital-video-cs5/rotoscope-with-rotobrush/https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3bf812c123007fb8513559df126b537c840-8000.html
AEtuts tutorial:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/welcome-cs5-an-intro-to-the-new-roto-brush/Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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To clarify the point that John made: After Effects will extend the span 20 frames each time you make a stroke. So, if you’re working through a duration and making a corrective stroke at least once per 20 frames, everything just works continuously.
It’s hard to imagine a circumstance in which you wouldn’t make at least one corrective stroke per 20 frames, since Roto Brush isn’t going to be perfect on its own analysis.
I recommend starting here to learn how to use Roto Brush:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/04/roto-brush-in-after-effects-cs.html———————————————————————————————————
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Hey Ian! Nice running into you here as I usually only see you at Paved Arts.
Below the numbered timeline is a dark slider with even darker arrows on it. If you drag the edges of this slider to make it bigger, you can increase the span.
Unfortunately it seems that you’re still limited by how much power is in your computer, as you can only render so much at once.
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The span slider appears after you’ve brushed your selection.
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