[Adam Lewen]

Hi Constantin.
I would take a “best resolution” 1 frame (PNG) from pretty much the middle of the clip (where the cable is seen at its glory ☺
take it to photoshop – > clean/clear the cable there (stamp tool) .

Go back to AE to the same frame you exported -> import the cleanup PSD from photoshop put the clean layer ontop of your shot.

I would use Mocha for AE to track the cable, paste the tracking information (transform data with prespective) to a null and from that good clean frame you have, parent the clean layer to that null.

The handrail probably will need to be copied ontop of everything and masked so it would “cover” the cleanup.

I did a 5 minute mockup to illustrate what im talking about, with 10 more minutes it will look much better ???? but you can understand from seeing the mockup. it’s really not perfect and could use a bit of manual positioning toward the end, but hey! no cable

Hope it helps!
clenaup in photoshop and tracking back…

cheers Adam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2j3SZabRgM&feature=youtu.be

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[Adam Lewen]

this video is private…

[Adam Lewen]

Interesting blog post here:
Methods and workflow
https://chrisforrester.tv/2010/05/channel-id-selection-color-id-passes-in-after-effects/

For anyone who’s interested

[Adam Lewen]

thanks for the reply!
i think i understand what you are saying, and if there are three colors , i imagine three precomps, one for each pass keyed and matted for color. but what would you suggest as a good workflow in such case?

thanks for any input.
adam.

[Adam Lewen]

Thanks for the prompt reply!
I wonder if they will change the stereo only in the near future 🙂

[Adam Lewen]

Jason! thanks so much for the detailed reply over there!
that was big help

[Adam Lewen]

Thank you so much for the detailed reply!
Great great help from both of you!

[Adam Lewen]

Thanks fro replying.

Let me test and see if I understand what you mean…
Ill update 🙂

[Adam Lewen]

Thanks for the input Kalle!

Luckily, one person is going to shoot all of them. (about 20 shots X 40 people) :-0

[Adam Lewen]

Thanks for all your inputs!
I will get into the research.
Plexus sounds like a powerful plugin. I hope the learning\research curve is not steep.
I did use connect layers a while ago, but not with a huge number of dots…
I will look at everything.

In the meanwhile I made a super quick and dirty render to clarify my quest.
https://youtu.be/dDAtWoHX2ok
I would like to make “connections” between the dots that are slowly forming the 2d image…

Appreciate your time and thoughts…
adamlewen