“Colour Edge” or “Edge Extend” tool in After Effects

[Richard Garabedain]

There is the simple choker and the matte choker but what will probably help first is in your Keylight go to view screen matte. then go down tgo screen matte and play with the clip black and white settings. these are the finer controls you have been looking for

[John Smith]

Thanks for your reply Richard. Unfortunately this isn’t what I need. I am aware of the simple and matte chocker, and the keylight capabilities. What I need is an Edge Extend tool that duplicates the pixels outward – not the matte. Please look at the tutorials to see what the tool does.

[Richard Garabedain]

The links you posted are long…with no start here: We cant tell what the tutorials are trying to do..

[Richard Garabedain]

Okay so i did look it up because its a slow day..It is a impressive effect…. this video explains what it does…It essentially is a negative simple choker that also clone brushes the outer most layer of pixels… I cant think of what could reproduce it for after effects

https://johannesmasanz.com/2014/12/nuke-edge-extend/

[Steve Bentley]

This would also be handy for creating already matted elements (or elements that are on a keyable color or white or black) where we then need to use a Straight alpha with. Straight needs the color elements to extend outside the matte area and then the alpha cleans up the edge.

I’m curious how this effect came to be in Nuke. Given the example in the video, is it perhaps a testament to the native keyer in nuke that it doesn’t do soft edges very well? It seems to me that this process should be part of the keyers job. (the software not the person)

Ok, back to being contructive: We’ve done this with trapcode’s shine. Its not perfect but it can do the trick depending on the shot.

[Walter Soyka]

[john smith] “Again if we can find it’s counterpart in AE that would be awesome!”

Before Flame got a similar effect several years back (called Pixel Spread). Prior to that, Flame artists had been extending edges outward by using the third party tool Sapphire Distort, with the Fine box checked.

Sapphire is also available for Ae, so you can use the same trick.

Walter Soyka
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[John Smith]

Thank you Walter! I’ll definitely try the Sapphire Distort and see how it works. Sorry about the links Richard, I wrote the time stamp but I guess it didn’t translate. The timing for Hugo’s videos are: 18:25 for the first and 18:10 for the second.

[John Smith]

Hey Walter,

I downloaded a trial of Sapphire’s Distort to check it out but I can’t seem to extend the edges. When I play with the settings it distorts the entire image. Is there a blog post or tutorial you can direct me to showing how Flame artists used the effect?

Thanks

[Walter Soyka]

[john smith] “I downloaded a trial of Sapphire’s Distort to check it out but I can’t seem to extend the edges. When I play with the settings it distorts the entire image.”

Yes, S_Distort will distort everything. You’d have to comp it together with a non-distorted layer for edge extension.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Richard Garabedain]

So i’ve been playing around…What about Refine Hard Matte effect…if you put the shift edge to 100…increase the decontamination and then feather it a bit you get a pretty similar result then you can add a matte choker to refine your edges