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Maintaing resolution on pre-matted footage
I am working with some pre-matted paint splatter and need to scale it up much larger than it is. unfortunately i am working in a comp the same size as my footage.
Any ideas on how to scale these pre-matted footage up and still keep my edge?
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5 Replies
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You can’t.
You can make the pixels bigger but you can’t make any more of them.
Shoot your own at the size you needs. Shoot black paint on a white board. that will create an easily matted alpha for you, you can fill it with any color you want.bogiesan
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depending on the edges of your original splatters, you may be able to use layer>auto trace to vectorize the splatters.
when you run auto trace, choose to apply the a new layer. at the end, you will hopefully have a vector version of your splatter that you can scale as need.
this will of course create hard edges, so if your splatters had softer edges it may not work well…
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
thanks, that was exactly what i needed. the edges were originally hard so this worked perfectly.
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Kevin, thanks for the “something other than shooting it” post but is autotrace practical for animation?
It’s a tool I gave up on back in AE 3 or 4 whenever it first appeared and was nothing but trouble, never bothered to open it since.
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bogiesan -
yeah… auto trace can produce some unexpected results, but if the forms are fairly simple and you don’t mind imperfections in the vector, then i can work out.
it seemed that ink spots footage might be a good candidate for auto trace, particularly if the mattes had clean edges… many imperfections in the vector could be overlooked in something organic like an ink splat.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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