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Remove BoomPole/Mic from frame with FCP
Hi all,
I have a question:
I have a 2-sec footage that is violated by a boompole/Mic at the upper side of the frame. I would like to remove these intruders because I cannot reshoot the footage. Does anyone know how to do that? I tried photoshop but it does not take frame by frame from FCP, it only deals with still frames back and forth. I know I can use combustion or shake but I am not profecient in these softies. Anyone knows how to remove that stuff with photoshop? I mean once in photoshop, I know how to erase and clone. But the problem is how to get frames one after the other betweeen Photoshop and FCP. Also, I cannot crop because I the footage has already been letterboxed.
Thanks in advnce and god bless.
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Does the shot move (Pan, zoom or tilt) If it doesn’t, any easy fix is find a frame of the scene without the mic, freeze it, put it on another layer above, crop down into the bad shot to cover. A quick fix that might work. It depends on if your original footage does have too much moving noise or grain. But you can slowly diz in/out the fix.
I just did this on a shot with a reflection in a picture frame that nobody saw. Worked like a champ.
Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
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And After Effects works pretty good too. If you’re going to do it in PS, you can export the clip from FCP,
using QT Conversion, as a numbered Image Sequence. When you’re done working on it,
open it in QT Pro, which can convert it into a QT movie for easy import back into FCP.
Look in the manual, it’s all there.
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Thanks a lot Shane. I actually own a Shake 4.1 but I never got to learn how to use it, no cheap video tutorials, perhaps I will buy the apple book for Shake training.
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Thanks Sante, I actually thought about your suggestion, but I couldn’t implement it because as the camera tilts down to follow the talent, the boompole follows, so no static frame. That is why I have to go frame by frame ad get rid of the pole.
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Oh this suggestion sounds interesting. I will try it.
When I go back from PS to FCP, will frames lose resolution? I believe I need to keep the same res that the frames have in FCP.
After PS treatment, what I an also do is save all the frames as a sequence of individual stills and import them to FCP, without a QT Pro drive thru. Will that work??
It is too bad that there is no such thing as FCP-PS SEND, as do n FCP-SOUNDTRACK and FCP-Motion, or FCP-Shake. (send to, open in editor, etc)No, I do not have AE.
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Frames won’t lose resolution. Yes, you can eliminate the QT part, but why would you?
It doesn’t affect the quality, and if you don’t stitch it all together in QT first, you’ll have
to piece it together in FCP.
Ed (did I say it’s *all* in the manual? read it, then if you still have a question, ask) -
The Cow has cheap tutorials (look in the tutorials section), but nothing on ROTOSCOPING…which is what you will be doing. The Shake manual has a section on this.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Oh Thanks Ed, I am not that great at reading boring tedious manuals ( I only study with videos tuts), but on this one, I will make a big exception.
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Ok Shane, thanks alot. I will look into that as well.
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