• Adobe After Effects

  Composite text onto race track

  Posted by Chrishoare2003 on August 15, 2007 at 10:10 am

  I am trying to create an effect I saw on a recent BBC trailer for the new football season (sorry, I cannot find a link to it)

  The trailer shows football highlights with the audio commentary playing, and the words which the commentator is speaking appear on the grass below the players, as if the players are running over the words.

  I am trying to do a similar thing for a race track, obviously the time comsuming way is to mask the individual cars as they pass over the text on the road, but could it be done using transfer modes?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks
  Chris

  Jeff Mcbride replied 18 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Mcbride

  August 15, 2007 at 6:28 pm

  If you have a static camera (or barely moving camera) your best bet would be to make a clean slate in Photoshop. Grab a few frames and piece together the scene without the cars in PS. You’ll still have to use masks to mask out cars but it can be pretty loose Rotoscoping. Start by making a mask of a car then jumping ten frames and making another, do this till the car is off screen again. Feather the mask a bit and drop some corner pinned text on the track underneath the car layer. This should work fairly well. With something like a racetrack you may even be able to pull a key and save yourself some time rotoscoping. Good luck!

  Jeff McBride
  Motion Graphic Designer/Editor
  LimeGreen
  Chicago, IL

  http://www.limegreenproductions.com

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