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  • Posted by Dan Newton on January 1, 2010 at 8:17 pm

    Hey

    Need some help

    I have a moving car — now i need to mask out its numberplate — make the number plate plain black.

    could you let me know step by step how you do this?

    the car moves a lot…

    Michael Szalapski replied 16 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Michael Szalapski

    January 1, 2010 at 9:03 pm

    You may be able to use motion tracking to track a black solid onto the license plate. This page from the AE manual has information about motion tracking (and includes links to tutorials and other things such as the Mocha tracker that ships with AE CS4.)
    You may end up having to do some rotoscoping.

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