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Cloning
So, my little one came up with a cool little short sketch idea. She wrote a script and did all the acting, and I filmed it and am now trying to edit it. The effect I am going for is her talking to 2 other versions of herself, and she wants all 3 on the screen at the same time.
I’m editing in After Effects. I’ve cut the clips up and aligned them so that when she talks it looks like a legit conversation (roughly, haven’t actually ironed out 100% perfect positioning) and am now onto trying to have them all appear at the same time. From what I have been able to find, I can use masking to pull it off, but I have yet to find a decent tutorial on how to actually pull it off, they simply say “mask this”.
Should I not have cut the clips up? I seem to have considerably more clips than the folks in the videos. I’ll post the file here and hope for the best. She’s really excited to show her friends so I’ve got til tomorrow.
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Thanks, I might have to re shoot, I don’t own a tripod, or even really a professional camera, it was shot on my Ipad, and held steady by myself. I’m fairly familiar with After effects, I’ve been working with it for roughly 3 years or so, but this is the first time I’ve thought to do this sort of thing
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Thanks again man! I usually work with a buddy of mine who has all the equipment, lighting, the whole 9, but life has kept him busy the last month or so, and I was just itching to get something done lol. The wee one asked if I could make something for her to show her friends, so I made due with what I have available
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Performing all the parts in front of a blue or green cloth would have helped you immensely, as you could chromakey each layer. Shooting so that the camera is locked down and the three positions don’t overlap would have made this super-simple to do with the crop tool.
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Here’s a tutorial that I think gets at what you are trying to accomplish. It’s a little dated now, but the concepts are the same.
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