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Video mask
I have a head and shoulder shot with some movement. What I need to do is remove the background and replace with a different background.
I drew a mask around my subject which worked for replacing the background. My problem is the mask doesn’t follow the subject. I tried
tracking but that made no difference. I am sure I’m doing something wrong. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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6 Replies
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Hi,
Please search the archive about “Rotoscoping”. You will find all you need in there.
Salut.
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You would have to keyframe the mask shape.
Mark
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Hi there,
Mark is “spot” on. You’ll have to have plenty of time, is it an interview style shot where the person doesn’t move around in frame to much? if so if you keyframe the mask it shouldn’t be to time consuming.
– Derrick
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Basically, click on your head layer.
Then press M
the mask twirly will drop down with the mask shape option, click on the stopwatch and go through the timeline adjusting your stuff as you go along, creating keyframes, thus animating your mask.
Thats the short and sweet of it.
Oh and you may want to feather it out a bit, so click on the head layer and press F. That will take out the hard edges
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I tried Jason’s sugguesting using keyframes. My problem is the first time I click on the stopwatch I get a key, as I move down the timeline and click the stopwatch again it moves the first keyframe to the new location. What am I missing here? BTW I am using AF 6.5Pro
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This is really basic.
You only click on the watch for the first keyframe. You click on the little box to add other keyframes. There are other ways to do it — check the help.
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