• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Problems animating a garbage matt to blur skin wrinkles

  Posted by Dave Felder on January 14, 2011 at 2:45 am

  I have an executive on screen speaking, and there are a lot of wrinkles in her neck and she asked me if I can fix it for her.

  My main clip is on V1. I copied the clip and put it on V2. The clip on V2 has a gaussian blur that does a nice job of smoothing out her neck. I’m using an 8 point garbage matte to isolate just her neck on V2.

  The speaker moves her head alot, so I have to put in a set of keyframes for the garbage matte frequently, say every half second. My problem is that when I drag the points of the garbage matte on my program window, it leaves handles and a track from the previous placement of the keyframe. After a few keyframes, my screen is an impossible mess of handles and paths covering the image, and I can’t see what I’m doing.

  Does anyone know how to turn the handles and paths off so I just see the keyframes in my window?

  Thanks for your response…

  Tim Kolb replied 15 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ann Bens

  January 14, 2011 at 10:10 pm

  I suggest plastic surgery but apart from that After Effect will do a much better job.
  Alas you cannot turn off the handles and path just to see the keyframes.
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  Tim Kolb

  January 19, 2011 at 2:08 am

  I know Boris Continuum Complete has a “smoother” effect that is quite effective…

  I don’t know of a good way to track this unless you can use the tonal range definition in one of the color correctors in PPro to isolate that area and reduce the contrast.

  TimK,
  Director, Consultant
  Kolb Productions,

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