cc simple wire removal tutorial

[Rowby Goren]

Thanks Dave for your response.

I’ll check that manual.

The problem I’m having is over time (animation) I keep seeing nodes being added to my cc simple wire removal tool.

I start out with something very simple — A & B — but as I move to later frames, other nodes seem to spring up for no “reason”,extending my original A&B — adding curve handles, etc.

I am sure it has something to do with some very basic After Effects concept that I am missing.

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[Rowby Goren]

Thanks Dave,

That’s exactly what I was looking for. I’m familiar with keyframes but AE clearly has some features that I am not used to.

So off to the tutorial links you supplied.

Best regards

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[Chris Wright]

i discovered a while back a new feature for simple wire removal. if you use bender effect above and below it, you can remove curved wires. although using a bezier plugin would be far easier.

in effects controls:
bender -enable adjust to distance
wire removal
bender neg amount of top bender exp. * -1, adjust to distance on

i then pickwhip a/b top/bottom base to a master slider

[Milica Jelaca]

Hi

i have a wire which is curved and i tried to unwrap it like you sad with CC Bender and Wire removal in AE. But it seems that I didn’t get very well how to do it. Can you be more specific and explain exact steps how to use these effects. It would be much appreciated, cause I’m troubling with it a long time now.
Thank you very much.

[Chris Wright]

in effects controls, you will have 3 effects in this order
1. cc bender – to unwrap wire to be perfectly straight
2. cc wire removal
3. another cc bender -re-bend with negative number you used from step 1

you can pickwhip to nulls to work faster the a and b endpoints.
you’d also want to mask out the portion you’re working with as bending/rebending causes softening of the image.

keep in mind, this is the slowest, most cumbersome way to remove curved wires, (short of clone stamp tool)
as AE doesn’t natively support bezier curvers. I’d recommend another compositing tool
or plugin instead like nuke.

[Milica Jelaca]

thank you for your answer, i will try to do that 🙂
the thing is that i’m not very familiar with nuke, as i’m with after effects. and as for plugins i tried key correct and composite wizard, but they are not much different from cc wire removal. is there any other plugin for ae who can work with bezier curves?

[Chris Wright]

sorry, as far as i know, no such AE plugin exists. I don’t know why there’s no b-spline or bezier plugins, very strange, seems like there would be a huge market for it. Mocha kind of took over that part, I believe, for tracking, splines etc.

Anyways, for ease of use, I’d recommend mocha pro. I’m sure you’ve used mocha before and it will automatically track and remove(create a clean plate) for you. very easy to use. google youtube mocha pro rig removal for quick demos.

don’t forget a quick track in AE attached to a couple clone stamp tools to go around a curve can sometimes work farely well, too.(as long as the curve shape angle is unchanging)

[Ross Shain]

The nice thing about mocha Pro’s removal tool is that it gives you lots of options for removing the object including the ability to match lighting and interpolate from clean plates when necessary.

More info and tutorials found here:
https://www.imagineersystems.com/features/automatic-object-removals/

Ross Shain
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