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should I keyframe a mask or motion track a mask?
I’ve got a video shot with some tree leaves in the foreground (out of focus) and cars in the background (in focus). I want to mask out the leaves so that I can put some text in front of the cars, but behind the trees. Even though the camera was locked off, the tree leaves are moving slightly because of the breeze.
Should I create a mask around the leaves (actually two masks because there are two big leaves that I want to do this to) and keyframe the masks’ movements? I’ve got 3 layers. Bottom layer is unaltered video. Next layer is text. Top layer is the masked leaves.
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Should I use motion tracking to do this? It’s about a 15 second clip of footage at 24fps. How to do this?
-trevor ward
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
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I’d mask-animate it. If you track a matte object, there’s a good chance it will not match at least a few frames due to the DOF on the leaves. When using masks you don’t have that problem (though it’s of course more painful to do by hand) and can match the mask feather for each frame as well.
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