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Masking & blurring
I am looking for ways or suggestions to mask and blur DV & HDV images, to that the image will “look” as if having shallow depth of field. That is looking more like film.
A friend of mine suggested doing a mask first in Photoshop or After Effects, but I never used any of them.
Avid MC is being used for editing this project.
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You could use BCC blurs on get your base layers right. Then a feathered animatte mask on the duplicated top vision layer. That could get you there.
Tracking is a pain on the keyframes but good luck…. -
The Paint effect under Image can do what you’re looking for. Basically you use the tools (paintbrush, polygon, shape, etc.) to define your background area. Then you set the apply mode to blur and adjust to your liking. I hope you’re working with a static interview, otherwise you’ll have to rotoscope the effect. Very not fun.
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This will be my first experience with blurring. How do you use it?
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This Paint effect looks promising. And yes, the image is static or that would be a real pain if it weren’t.
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Carol,
Dup v1 to v2(matching vision layers)
On V1 apply out of effects palette BCC Colour and Blurs, BCC Gaussian Blur in effect mode you can muck around to get your Background Look.
If it’s an old system and you don’t have Boris you can use in Blend 3D Warp in defocus select FG only in the hamburger menu that will do a decent defocus as well.
On V2 out of Key in effect apply Animatte key I like to apply the poly tool draw/click around the foreground figure, then while that animate shape is selected (selection tool) wind in feathering to get your look. If you then need to adjust keyframes in the effect add a keyframe and with the reshape tool move your spline points around don’t add more points try and get by with what you started with or strange things being too happen…Good Luck…Enjoy -
OK. Nothing against Carol, as there was a great film director called Carol Reed. But my name is Carlos.
Thanks for your tips, Paul. On my try I sticked to Blend 3D Warp and Animatte, but I may try BCC too. First results, for my first try ever, look very promising. But I need to correct a lot of minor details on the matte borders.
How do I soften them so they can blend in better?
As the foreground is grass on the floor and leaves on the trees, that will need some retouching.
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