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Shooting for 3d post..Bill O’Neil
Hope you don’t mind but I’m reposting this ’cause this forum is so amazingly popular stuff gets down the list so quickly it can get missed:
This is really nice Bill…I’ve been working on something similar but am encountering some interlacing problems when scaling and moving the cut-out talent around the ‘set’ (I can’t ‘shoot’ progressive so can you (or anyone else) suggest the best solution to this problem please…and are the shadows from the light in 3d or did you cheat them ?…again my ‘virtual’ set is a 2-d layer and I’m trying (for various reasons) to avoid getting into 3-d for this particular project (eg these are for a news item and turn-around speed is v important so I can’t risk long renders) though I’ve tried duplicating the subject…making it 3-d layiing it down on the floor blurring etc but am getting some strange results…thanks again for showing us that…regards…Roger
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Thanks for the kind words, Roger. To de-interlace your footage simply select “lower field first” in the interpret footage panel (or “upper” depending on how your NLE acquired the footage).
The shadows were indeed cheated although some of the figures had a decent shadow left over after the key. You could easily create the shadows in AE 3D with a light (and a floor layer) but it would have to be lit from the front so as not to reveal the flat figures.
Bill O’Neil
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Thanks for getting back Bill…yeah I tried de-interlacing but the slight softening was of concern…and you left some of the shadows when keying out the green screen ?…that’s interesting …regards…Roger
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The shadows near the feet of the actors were difficult to remove so I left some of them with a soft mask to get rid of the turntable. It’s also easy to put a pool of shadow underneath the actors with a separate layer underneath that has a soft-edge mask that can be animated if need be.
Bill O’Neil
http://www.chicagospots.com -
that makes sens…thanks Bill
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