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After Effects Before Professional Color Correction?
I’m editing a feature-length documentary/pretty new to After Effects but I’ve figured out how to blur out the faces of multiple people who we weren’t able to get releases from. I was wondering if I were to import the shots back into final cut would this create trouble down the line when we plan to use any professional color correction services? A co-worker brought up a point that the cc ppl would want the video to have the least amount of manipulation? Is there a way to export the AE files as layers similar to a photoshop file so we can turn them on/off if needed?
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This kind of work is not going to be a problem for the colorist(s). If you were adjusting colors in After Effects, that would be a different matter.
Just make sure that you’re rendering and exporting from After Effects to a format and codec that lose as little information as possible. Compression artifacts are a nightmare for coloring work.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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Thanks for the response, Dave. We’ve used ProRes422 for all of our footage. Do you recommend doing this in After Effects or is there a different program I should try? I’ve heard some things about Mocha. Just trying to keep down costs so we don’t have to send it to a post house.
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Blurring faces is easy in After Effects.
I show a few ways in these videos of selectively applying an effect to a tracked region:
https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/removing-a-logo-from-a-moving-image
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-by-video/adobe-after-effects-cs5-motion-tracking-and-rotoscoping/
https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/isolating-a-subject-with-roto-brush
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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mocha AE comes bundled with Adobe After Effects CC. However, if you are cutting in Final Cut Pro X, than you may also want to check out SliceX powered by mocha from CoreMelt.com
This is a $99 plug-in that does the shape masking, tracking and blurring all within the FCPX timeline. For long form project cut on FCPX, this could be the most efficient way to blur faces.
Hope this helps,
RossRoss Shain
Imagineer Systems
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Thanks, Todd! Your videos were really helpful.
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