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  • mask within a mask

    Posted by Kelly Schaefer on August 11, 2014 at 2:24 pm

    Hi all;

    I have some green screen footage and the key dropped out a blue green shirt. I know, shoulda woulda coulda shot it on blue screen. Anyway, so now I am rotoscoping out the shirt. I also need to key out the background,the part that falls off the green screen,using a mask around the subject, so I have a rotoscope within a mask. I need to use that mask to drop out the background, but it won’t work. The rotoscope either drops out the rest of the frame or,if I invert, just the shirt. How do I get my rotoscope to keep the shirt from keying out, and make my scene mask key out the background? Good news is I have time – no tight deadline, imagine that!

    viddog4

    Kelly Schaefer replied 11 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • James Huenergardt

    August 11, 2014 at 3:57 pm

    What you need to do is use a couple of layers.

    On one layer, you have your background KEYED out using Keylight or whatever.
    On a layer just above that, you do your ROTO work on the shirt.

    That should work well for you.

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  • Kelly Schaefer

    August 11, 2014 at 8:14 pm

    Thanks James, it worked!

    viddog4

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