• Adobe After Effects

  remove out of focus fly buzzing in front of subject

  Posted by Matt Brodie on May 14, 2019 at 2:43 pm

  I dabble in AE for some basic opening titles, lower thirds, that sort of thing for the corporate videos I shoot. I shot an event a few weeks ago and I had a fly flying directly in front of the stage the whole event. Before I show the footage to the client I want to know if there’s a way to easily track and remove the fly without costing them an arm and a leg for me to rotto it by hand. Thoughts? Any good tutorials online for something like this? Thanks!

  Here’s 2 gifs showing what I’m working with:
  https://imgur.com/a/5fBtBGr
  https://imgur.com/a/Wctojzl

  Fly cip

  Martin Brennand replied 7 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Martin Brennand

  May 15, 2019 at 3:28 am

  For tracking, probably not. The fly is too low contrast to be a reliable feature. Heck, it took me a while to even find it with my eyes. ☺

  Hand roto is probably your best bet, before moving on to either a simple patch clone, a further blurring or similar offset etc.

  Martin Brennand | Product Manager | mocha – Imagineer Systems

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