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Need advice re: underwater shoot / motion tracking / AE
Hey All – first posting here so please be gentle… I am a complete AE neophyte and am looking for guidance so I can pitch this to a real AE person if this is feasible…
I want to shoot a James Bond Thunderball-type opening – with a couple of girls and a wiener dog swimming in a pool (the film is a documentary about competitive dachshunds). I just want the girls/dogs outlines – not their features (since they are being kind enough to be nekkid for me lol). Is there a way to capture mask out pool/background and just keep the silhouettes? I was assuming the motion tracking tool would be the way to go?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Shane
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There is a filter called “Threshold” which looks at the brightness of a pixel and makes it either black or white. If the girls and dog(s) are darker than the pool background then the Threshold filter can quickly turn them into black silhouettes.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com
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