Remove text from a bus, suggestions on how to approach?

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Anthony Sneed] “I’ve tried making a solid patch that I motioned tracked but the light changes as the bus passes.”

I usually try to make small curves adjustments and keyframe them. It’s usually enough for small brightness changes.

[Anthony Sneed]

I thought so too but the only problem is that the light that hits the side of the bus changes so that in the beginning of the clip the left side of the patched image will be lighter then later on it will be darker, it’ll completely flip. And I can’t control the image in that sense.

[Greg Gesch]

Hi. I downloaded the file but my machine won’t recognise it (???). However my thought would be to make a mask around the text, set it to subtract. Then add a copy of the footage underneath and reposition it (and possibly scale it up?)so that the blank area that is underneath the writing fills the hole. May be worth a try.

[Anthony Sneed]

Hey thanks for that. It’s a prores file, I’m assuming you’re on windows?

[Anthony Sneed]

also just click the vimeo link its the same if you want to check it out

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Anthony Sneed] ” And I can’t control the image in that sense.”

But you can control where the lighting effect changes with masks.