Getting rid of a door stop

[Mark Suszko]

Posting a still frame of the problem is always very helpful.

If the camera isn’t moving, then I would just export a still of the frame to photoshop, clone over or heal-brush over the door stop, which should preserve the gradient shadow effects of the wall paint in that region, then layer that still over the video with a soft edge mask to just rteat the imediate area of the doorstop location. Motion isn’t strictly needed for this, IMO.

Unless the shot is not a perfect lock-down. Then you’d still do he same thing basically, but use the motion tracker and match-mover tools so the patch tracks over teh offending object as the camera imparts movement.

[Dan Monro]

The other option might be to blur it with a soft mask if you can’t eliminate it completely. It might at least be less distracting…

Dan Monro
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[Christopher Smith]

Thanks Dan and everyone else. I had my graphics guy make me a mask. For some reason I can’t get Motion to let me track it. I’m just going to do the tracking in FCP by hand. The clips are short and the cameras isn’t constantly moving so it shouldn’t be too hard to manually track with key framing. I hope to get to this tomorrow so I’ll let you know how it turns out.

Thanks,
Chris

Christopher Smith
Senior Broadcast Specialist
Warrington College of Business Administration
University of Florida