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Removing frame similarities
So I’m new here and hoping you guys can help me out. I need to get a shot where the same car is repeating over and over in different parking spaces. It’s only a 3 second shot, so I was going to just lock the camera down and move the car over and over and composite it.
So my question is, Is there a way in AE I could take a shot of the empty parking lot and then one with a car in it and just remove the similarities, so basically just the parking lot, so that it almost acts like a key I guess. I figured it’s a long shot but it could really make it a lot easier not to have to basically rotoscope every car.
Thanks for taking the time to read this guys. I’m excited to get involved in this community!
Stephen Byrd
Stephen Byrd
Ace Digital Media, LLC
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Dave made a very strong point, at first when you discover the difference matte it seems a quick way to solve that problem, but when you get the actual footages it can get easily out of control, a few mismatch (clouds passing) can cause some flicker and you end up having to patch things.
So I basically just mask it in the first place.
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With the camera locked down, every spot the car is in. the car will be shot from a different angle, so trying to key it, you would have to duplicate those angles. Now shadows, with keying would depend if the parking lot is empty except for your car. If there’s a car next to your car and the shadow hits that car, the keying the car way would then be way harder. I recomend your method of just moving the car for each shot, as long as the sky is clear or completely overcast. If a shot or two happened to have a cloud over you where the rest didn’t, that shadow wont match the others. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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