green rotoscope-er

[Stone Reader]

Yes there is, but it just hasn’t been invented yet. When someone figures it out I’ll let you know 😉

[Peter O’connell]

A few more tips.
Never roto on the layer of the footage itself.
Create a solid above the layer and roto on that, with the visibility turned off.
Lock the layer with the footage on it. This way there is no way to accidentally move the position of a layer
Load the comp into ram preview.
Now you can roto and scrub the timeline superfast, and your ram preview never dissapears.
Also consider tracking either by hand roughly or with the tracker the item that needs to be rotoed,
then create an expression between the position of the rotoed layer and the position of the (stabilized)
footage. Then you can roto without using the hand tool.
Roto is best done in a dedicated roto comp and the resulting mask then saved out as an ffx. file to be inmported into in the main comp.

Pete

I am roto man

Friday; April 14, 2006
1:06 AM

[Serge Hamad]

Pete.
You are indeed a roto man! Few artists know about the tricks you added to the excellent thread.
I think that a serious roto tutorial should be written on day. Any takers? What about a join ventura?

Salut.
Serge

[Evideom]

In regards to Pete’s creating another solid layer…..

Can you use vector paint for this? I tried to make the solid layer invisible but I cannot see what I am painting on the footage layer. Maybe I have the wrong invisible option checked? I clicked the eyeball to the left of the comp name, is this correct?

Should you always use vector paint for really fast moving objects like sports players?

[Evideom]

While using vector paint to create masks on fast moving objects, should my main concern be to keep the paint inside the object I am masking? Or should I be trying to trace the very edge of the object?

[Evideom]

I am also getting a flicker on the edges of the vector mask when I ram preview, what am I doing wrong and what can I do to avoid this from happening?

[Peter O’connell]

HI evideom, I don’t think you should use vector paint, at least I don’t. I just make a mask with the pen tool. The mask should go to pretty much the edge of the subject. As far as the flutteringgoes, that starts to lessen after you have done a couple hundred hours of roto. Serge, yes I was thinking of making a tutorial about roto to post cause unfortunately I had to learn all that stuff the hard way (at 2K ouch!!). I’ve never actually made a tutorial but it sounds fun. How would this joint venture work? Let’s do it, “The definitive AE Users Guide to Roto”
Send your ideas about it to me here: pete a t barxseven d o t c o m

Bye
Pete

[Kevin Mcquade]

whao!

[Kevin Mcquade]

Can I see a project file of any kind?

[Peter O’connell]

Hi Kevin, I am going to make a cow tutorial about this which should be out in a couple weeks if you can hold on.

Pete

Wednesday; April 19, 2006
12:05 AM

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