An especially cool feature in the new Adobe release today

[Michael Hancock]

Select your video layer.
Put a mask around the area you want to Content Aware Fill and set the mask to Subtract.
Track the mask to the footage if you need to.
Select your video layer and open the Content Aware Fill panel.
Set your Fill method (I don’t know what the difference between them is, I haven’t played with it that much).
Click Generate Fill Layer.
Wait.

You don’t have to make a reference frame in Photoshop unless you want to. If you don’t, I assume it uses AI to generate one.

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Mark Suszko]

Tried it yesterday on a 25 second clip, and it took overnight to render. Results were… interesting. Slightly surreal. It needed to motion-track, and I hadn’t set that up. Would I have to go create nulls and all that, or just find a trackable point and let it track forward, before invoking the Content-aware fill?

[Michael Hancock]

You can select your mask, then open your motion tracker and it will track the mask to your footage. No need to make nulls. Then invoke Content-Aware Fill. Crazy that it took overnight to render though. What are your machine specs? I’m on an 8-core MacPro and tested a 5 second 4K clip the other day and took less than 10 minutes.

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Mark Suszko]

iMac 27 inch late 2013,
3.5 Ghz Intel Core i7,
32 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3,
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB