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Need other’s experience
I made a set of clips in a cave and in half of them I forgot to take away the fur of the microphone when using a fisheye lens adapter. Result, the upper right part of the image has the fur on it. In FCP7 I could solve similar problems using the same clip, taking a similar part of the image, with the same movement, crop, feather and repositioning it on the place of the black spot. Being in a cave it might work pretty good and could save many clips. In FCPX I can not do that, or at least I do not know how I can do that again.
Note: Please don’t say “make the shots again”, the cave is 4k Km south of Brisbane…..
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If it’s good rez footage why not just increase the scale (zoom in) until the mic is out of frame>
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I would deal with it like this in Motion or After Effects: grab a still image from your footage, draw a mask (with feather) around the area you want to use to cover the mic, position the masked image over the mic, track the movements in the shot, apply the track to the masked image, fiddle with the brightness, colour, position and feather of the masked image so it blends in.
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Here’s a FCP X effect that’s designed for this situation:
It might help you solve this.
It uses the technique you are describing, allowing you to select, position, scale and feather the mask for the area you want to affect, and then offset a cloned layer to fill the masked area with different content. Both the mask area and the offset can be manipulated with onscreen controls, and you can even color correct the new fill for a better match.
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I don’t think you can feather a standard crop in FCPX. Instead, use the Mask-filter, which can be feathered (and as a bonus cropped irregularly). I just tried and it should work fine for what you describe.
Workflow: Duplicate your clip and place it on top of the original, add the Mask-filter and edit the corners as you like, reposition the clip to the area you want to patch, change the feather-setting to what you like and then add the Gaussian-filter and try different settings.
Tips: If you do all this from within a compound clip (either created from your projects timeline or even better created from the event browser (right click and choose New compound clip…) you can then handle the compound clip containing the patch as one unit, which saves time when color correcting etc…
Last note: If you’re using 10.0.6 then theese “ready-baked” compund clips will be global, meaning that if you edit them from the event browser the changes will appear in all timelines/projects that are using that compbound clip. Although I have yet to test this, it’s how 10.0.6 should work from what I’ve read, and I think it’s awesome.
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In the old days I think we used to call this a travelling matte…
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[Petter Stahre] “Workflow: Duplicate your clip and place it on top of the original, add the Mask-filter and edit the corners as you like, reposition the clip to the area you want to patch, change the feather-setting to what you like and then add the Gaussian-filter and try different settings.”
Exactly.
Essentially, you fix it the same way you’d fix it with any other NLE. Layer a cloned copy and crop, and re- position, and composite the result.
X has, at it’s heart, a pretty traditional video editing toolset. There are some areas where it’s approach is quite different – but for most common editing tasks like this it works precisely the same as other NLEs.
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It worked out….clone, mask, move to the site, feather and that is it..
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