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Surfing Footage Effects
Hi,
I’m trying to apply filters to footage of surfing to make some really cool-looking surfing videos. One of the things I’m trying to do is take video of a surfer, color the surfer and his board all white, and color everything else black. I have tried a number of methods.Vectorize Color Filter in FCP6 gets close but does not give me proper outline of the surfer and board
Magic wand in Photoshop frame-by-frame takes way too long and hand-painting is not consistent enough
I cannot get the Track Motion feature in After Effects or Motion to apply an effect to the moving object. I can track the motion of the surfer in After Effects and Motion, but I cannot apply any effect to the motion track nor to the exact shape of the surfer and his boardPlease help! I will send stills of what I am talking about. I am making a next-generation surf video and have spent tons and tons of hours researching and still cannot find the solution. This post is a last-ditch effort. Any help with this effect or cool unusual ideas that might work with surf footage would be very much appreciated, thanks
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Hi Mathew,
For something that is moving and changing shape you need rotoscoping.
rafael
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