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Complex Composite Involving Hair, No GS, and a Screen Replacement!
Basically in need of feedback as to how to approach the shot. I’ve been tearing away at this one and in need of some opinions. Here are some frames as a reference to what I’m talking about. What I’m attempting to do is key hair without a green screen and replace the screen with some footage. I’ve created a clean plate by painting out the actress, but I can’t seem to reverse this in order to salvage the fine hair surrounding the actress. Her hair is discolored because there is no light being reflected onto her, and ideas as to:
1. salvage the fine hair
2. repair the discolorationthanks for any and all ideas!
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You can create a matte by applying Levels to the footage and crush the whites and blacks a bit, Hue/Saturation to bring down the saturation all the way, and then Levels again to refine. You will get something like this:
You can then animate a mask on a white layer to fill in the hair section with white and a black layer with a mask to fill in the screen. Precomp the three layers and then assign that as an alpha channel to comp the footage on top of itself. Sandwich the screen in between. You can the create a light wrap for the top layer to blend in the hair (google creating a lightwrap in AE if you do not know what that is).Tudor \”Ted\” Jelescu
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I would try the “Refine Soft Matte” filter. It often does wonders on chunky edge detail on stuff like hair…it can be indistinguishable from magic in some instances, or it can make things worse in others.
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