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Rotoscoping or painting?
Ok, here’s my issue. I have several shots with a light reflection on a TV. I need to get rid these because unfortunately the light is clearly visible and can’t be played off as something else. For some of the shots I’ve been able to copy the layer, mask out the tv on the top layer and blur and darker the layer below to hide the reflection. Unfortunately, in several shots the actor moves in front of the tv and now I’m faced with a rotoscoping issue. My question is, what is the best way of camouflaging or getting rid of this reflection? The light doesn’t need to be taken out altogether necessarily, I just need to hide what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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If the light is much stronger than everything else in the scene, you could try a luma key. This will naturally create a hole in the TV…under that hole, I would place a duplicate of the original footage, but I would move the position of the footage so that it is a part of the screen that is unaffected by the light that show through the hole.
If the light is not the strongest part of the scene, then I would probably do this with paint rather than rotoscoping….you could use the clone paint tool on a frame by frame basis.
hope this helps
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
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Thanks for the help. I’ll give them both a try and see what works best.
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Good point Dave !!
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
Le R
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