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Novice compositor needs help
I’m a one-woman post team trying to finish my first HD Feature.
The problem: I have two scenes of extreme close-ups where my talent has acne.
The question: what is the best way to clean up this actor’s face.
I found a videopilot tutorial on masking blemishes, but that did not work like it did in the video.
In addition, from what I have read so far, AE cannot export HD. (DVCPRO-HD – P2 Native)
At this point I find myself painting each pumple frame by frame using the quickpaint node in Shake.
That is fairly effective but painfully slow. I understand the the Quickpaint node has the ability to track and paint 10 frames out, but I have not gotten it to work thus far.
Does anyone know of a better way to do this? Can you point me to another tutorial for Color or Motion?
Is there indeed no way to export HD from AE? All suggestions are welcome. Thanks!! -
8 Replies
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Patrick Sheffield’s Electronic Makeup Artist plugin for FCP that may help
https://straylight.tv/pluginz/index.htmlLee Berger
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thanks for the lead!!
I’ll check it out. -
AE can export any format in any Codec on your system. or just revert to Animation. If it cannot, you either do not have the Codec on your system or you are using a very old version of AE.
You can track the blemish cover up to the pimple and it should hold for multiple frames.
My best advice would be to ask in the After Effects forum. lots of great advice there.
RB
Rory Brennan
Editor
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Wow! Now as editors, we must also be Dermatologists!!!
For the future, have the talent use makeup before the shoot so this does not have to be done in post.
Same goes for plastic surgery. I refuse to fix someone’s blemishes and personal body flaws. We do not live in a perfect world.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
I have a new plugin that I wrote specifically as a sort of Electronic Clearasil (I have a teenage daughter) called ZitZap that may help you out… Unfortunately, it’s not available for purchase thru the store just yet…
You click on the “blemish” color and then on regular skin tone, set some parameters and go…
If you wanna contact me – psheffield at pistolerapost dot com… we can talk…
Patrick
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Patrick,
I’d like more info on your plugin & its availability. I often shoot engineers/CEOs that won’t consent to
go the makeup route.Holly
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Hi Steve:
We did have makeup, which only help some.
But apparently a breakout is a breakout.
I’m a brown girl, so I dont know about these things.And while I would usually agree with you about imperfect reality
This is a narrative movie and as such, is by definition, a fantasy
What’s more, I would never project an ECU of an actor 30 feet high
without trying to make her look as perfect as possible.
At least not of an actor that I liked.But thank you for your thoughts. All points duely noted. M!
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I work in a post house where most software versions are up to date
Whenever I try outputting,
These is a purple ghosting around the edges.
But I will do the codec run down over at the AE forumThanks for your thoughts. M!
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