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Need to remove a mic from a shot
Hi there!
I just had a client email me a 6 second clip in which they would like to remove the lavalier mic from this woman’s sweater.
I played with it for a few hours in photoshop, but that pesky pattern on her collar is becoming a real pain.
Any advice would be REALLY appreciated.
Thanks!
Nick Vaka
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4 Replies
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Do you only need to photoshop one frame, or the entire clip? If the entire clip, you may be in for a long ride. Perhaps the best thing you could do is motion track the shot and then mask a portion of her unaffected collar and move it over onto the mic. Then parent it to the tracked null. Use a little mask feathering, and you should get close, unless there is a bunch of movement. Then, you tell them to shoot it next time with a boom mic.
Best of luck
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The entire clip. I started doing it in Photoshop and got a magical dancing collar. I think that’s a good idea with the motion tracking. She doesn’t move too much. Thanks for the tip!
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well i think for shots where the lighting/saturation changes, you have to use clone tool with ALT key. That copies the lighting/saturation changes 10 pixels over. and blur/noise/grain is your friend.
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I just did a shot like this on the AE podcast. Unless she rotates a lot while she’s talking you can probably get away with photoshopping one frame and tracking it back into the scene.
https://podcasts.creativecow.net/after-effects-tutorials-podcast/basic-25d-rig-removal
Carl Larsen
TelescopeMediaGroup.net
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