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Masking sections out
Hello!
I’ve got a bit of a problem on my hands… I’ll show you a screen grab first:
There’s some tape on the actor’s neck which was holding down the mic. The skivy fell and unfortunately, no one has noticed. Now, I’m trying to find a solution as to how I can mask this portion of video out. I’m up against a large task given there’s shadowing on the neck. I tried using the 8 point garbage matte and blurring it but… poor results.
Can anyone offer any solutions?
Thanks for your time
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1 Reply
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The time/costs required to fix that kind of thing well in post is often more than the time/costs to re-shoot, but assuming a re-shoot isn’t practical in your circumstance, you might consider fixing that in After Effects or some other compositing program, rather than FCP.
That said, a couple possible approaches …
First, feathered mask out the tape and find something suitable to replace it with. Using the area of the actor’s neck just to the left and above the tape could solve the shadow issue and avoid possible additonal steps like matching grain, etc. Then, track the replacement to the actor’s motion. That is pretty much “rotoscoping” which, depending on the amount of movement, is often not quick or easy so you might want to look for some tutorials on rotoscoping if you haven’t done it before.
If it’s a very brief shot, it might even be faster to export it as an image sequence and paint out the tape in Photoshop.
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