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Editing out or masking video
I searched the posts to see if someone else asked a similar question, but i can seem to find anything.
I was just wondering if there is a way to use after effects to cover up items in a video, say an actor in the background or chairs, etc, but still make the background look okay. i tried using photoshop with jpg sequences, but that looks to obvious.
thanks for your help.
barry -
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You want to create a clean bkg, an image, free of anything you might want to remove from the original footage so that you can selectively remove any object you want. If you had shot a clean bkg in the filming/taping of the scene you would have it. You can make one from a live action element but it takes sometime. You could paint it in photoshop but you lose the noise/grain in the motion footage when you create a still from the live action element. You could create some noise by using the same camera and shooting something even colored (like black) and then try adjusting the contrast and layering that over you static bkg with multiply or whatever mode works best. You can take a number of copies of your live action element and by masking and repositioning and scaling, create a clean bkg.
Tony
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