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  • What Rotoscoping Tool to use?

    Posted by Lance1 on March 12, 2006 at 8:12 pm

    Hi,

    I am looking for a simple, cheap rotoscoping tool, can someone recommend one? Something like Strata Media Paint (which is extinct and does not work under Win2K). I tried to use Photoshop 7 and the filmstrip format but this just isn’t very good, there have got to be better tools out there. ImageReady 7 was horrendous, it put every frame in a new layer! Couldn’t figure that one out.

    Thanks

    Lance1 replied 20 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jim Kanter

    March 15, 2006 at 3:04 am

    What sort of roto work? Wire removal? Masking? Paint effects?

    Have you tried breaking the video into an image sequence and editing in PS, then reassembling back into a video clip?

    Have you looked into FilmGIMP?
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/filmgimp/

    Jim Kanter,
    Digital Film Institute
    http://www.dfilminst.com

  • Lance1

    March 16, 2006 at 4:37 am

    Hi Jim,

    >What sort of roto work? Wire removal? Masking? Paint effects?

    Paint effects. I want to draw on and over the frames. Make things appear and disappear. And also to do quick and dirty effects to show others the effect I’m looking for. (like a storyboard)

    >Have you tried breaking the video into an image sequence and editing in PS, then reassembling back into a video clip?

    Filmstrip, yes. VERY cumbersome! That is my current method, I was hoping to find something better. Strata Media Paint was great.

    >Have you looked into FilmGIMP?

    It says the OS is POSIX or Linux, I’m running Win2K so I assume it won’t work.

    Rick

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