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  • Giant moire-like wavy lines from shooting a giant screen.

    Posted by Joseph Windowstosky on November 22, 2013 at 12:25 am

    Using Vegas 10. (I’m stuck in 32 bit XP, so I can’t upgrade.) I also have, and mostly love, BorisFX 10.0.

    As magical as these wavy lines may be, I’d love to be rid of them.

    This was shot with a little Canon camera. The giant screen behind me had distinct scan lines, and the interplay between those and the camera created this huge artifact.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8jWtc3b3Xs

    Any advice?

    The whole source video is the wide shot – the closeups are digital cropping.

    If there isn’t some super smart plugin that detects this sort of thing and fixes it, I thought perhaps there could be a way to isolate the foreground (me) from the background, and insert a still frame for the background, without having to cut myself out with masking by hand. And somehow, have the result not look fake.

    All ideas, however labor intensive or silly, welcome. 🙂

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    Joseph Windowstosky replied 11 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • John Rofrano

    November 24, 2013 at 4:19 pm

    I don’t believe there is a plug-in that can remove those artifacts. Since the camera is not locked down and it zooms in and out and the quality is low, I doubt that there is anything you could do with this footage to change it. You could try the Roto Brush tool After Effects but you would also need a planar tracker like Mocha to track the camera movements for the background and replace it with the fake background so that it moves with the camera. It would be a huge amount of work requiring expensive tools and in the end might not look that convincing.

    I would just resign your self to the fact that it is what it is… armature footage of a live performance under uncontrollable circumstances.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • Joseph Windowstosky

    November 24, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    Thank you. For what it’s worth, the actual source video is the wide shot – the zooming was all done in post. But I know you’re probably right. 🙂

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