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Silhouette without green screen?
I’m pretty beginner with after effects so bare with me.
I’m filmed these dancers as a silhouette and want to create a digital silhouette (video not still) . I don’t have access to a green screen big enough, otherwise I would of done it that way. Can I mask out everything other than the dancers? How would I do that.? Will the fact that the floor is grey and not white be a problem?
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You can do it by rotoscoping. It’s mostly manual work and it’ll take a lot of time.
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If the dancers stay in the lit up section you might be able to key them out.
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Personally (although the quality may not be as high as rotoscoping, but it’s a lot faster) I’d use a keying plugin like Extract to key out the bright areas of the frame (it looks like the dancers are very deep black). The feet will be very tricky, but if the dancers stay in the same distance from the camera you could create a mask for the dancers that stops just where their feet would meet the ground, as it looks like there’s a bright reflection on the floor behind the feet that would also be keyed out with Extract. You could also keyframe the border of the mask if they move forwards and backwards.
You’d have to try it first to see if this works, and it also depends on how high the quality of the silhouettes needs to be, but if it works it will save a lot of time.
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