Best General approach to Rotoscoping.

[Dan Fredley]

Pete definitely knows his stuff, so it might be worth it to understand the basics of rotoscoping. I haven’t watched those in a long time, but I remember I learned a few key concepts from him. Understanding the AE approach also might give you more appreciation for the mocha approach, which I think is more streamlined.

Dan Fredley

[Todd Kopriva]

> I do have Pete O’Connell’s DVD, Advanced Rotoscoping Techniques in After Effects. It seems a little aged as he is showing how to perform rotoscoping in CS3, although, those approaches may be a bit timeless.

I recommended Pete’s DVD in my previous message. I’ll do it again.

Don’t assume that because something was created using After Effects CS3 that it’s not relevant to CS5. A very small fraction of features change from one version to the next.

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[Sonnie Hamner]

I tried adding forced blur to my mask and it undoes my rotoscope work any ideas of what I am doing wrong?

Finally got editing down and now I face compression!!

I have an 1hr 50min film dvcpro720p60, sent to compressor it renders out at 95.96GB

The largest disc I can find is a blu-ray 50GB

What settings do I use to render it under 50 GB and retain HD?