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Masking
Dear All
I have a video clip with a car passing the camera, behind the car in the distance is a truck that I wish to get rid of, so I end up with just one car in the shot.
It was shot on an Canon xl1s and is locked down on a tripod. The shot is totally stationary. The truck that I wish to remove is in the far distance.
What is the best method to mask out the truck?
Can this be done with prem pro? If so how?
thanks to anyone with the time to respond.
A
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1 Reply
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You can draw a mask around the truck with the pen tool, hit M to reveal the basic mask properties for that layer in the timeline, then invert the mask using the “invert” button.
However, once you’ve removed the truck, you have to ask yourself “what will I put there in its place?” If you don’t have a shot of the background without the truck, you need to place some kind of layer below that layer in the timeline to fill the hole left by the missing truck. Maybe you can use AE’s cloning brushes to clone some parts of the background, or cobble together some background bits from elsewhere in the scene, maybe creating something in Photoshop.
Getting rid of the truck is easy … it’s filling the hole that’s tough.
… and I don’t own Premiere Pro, but if it has no masking tools, I don’t think you can do this.
Steve
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