Thanks for your suggestions. I do this sometimes too with a zoom style, its style is accepted in some cases. I usually cut to full screen when the presenter is in front which mostly works but when it’s too often then there it simply no other solution to fall back to magic 🙂

Thanks for your comments!

I avoid obsolete effects because this means that in a future version the effect is gone and I will get an error when opening an older project. Hence I couldn’t do changes and reexport it because of the missing effect.

Your answer is still very helpful, I am going this path for now but will have to find a better solution in the future.

For context: I…

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This is perfect. Too bad this effect is listed under “obsolete” in Premiere. I am wondering what they want me to replace this with in future versions.

There is surely some smarter way than rotoscoping and AE.

Currently I am playing with difference matte, nesting and then keying etc. It does work but its just a bit tricky because I have to nest, I was wondering if there is some smarter way to do this.

G’day,

I have filmed from a tripod. I have two identical video layers but one has a person walking in them the other one doesn’t. I want to see only the person, the rest should be transparent. Meaning I only want to have visible what’s different between the two videos.

How can this be achieved without going deep into the After Effects rabbit hole?…

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Precomposing did the trick!

Thanks for all your help! This is exactly what I was looking for!

Hi!

Yea i think that’s the effect I am after! But I tried to apply it but I don’t get the result needed.

So I have two layers. Bottom layer: The original video where I freeze frame a clean image without the presenter, leaving just the plain background.

The top layer with the difference matte effect. I choose the bottom layer as masking layer. But…

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Hi there!

I have a simple setup: Filming a guy talking and his powerpoint presentation. Lighting is very unfavorable in such a setup and the choice of aperture is tricky because either the presenter is too dark or the screen is too bright. So I decided to set the aperture for the presenter and will replace the overexposed presentation in post.

Now…

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Hello!

I have a very interesting problem and many of my colleagues couldn’t help me, so here I am, asking the all knowing internet for advice.

Download this file from wikipedia:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Map_of_French_Polynesia-fr.svg

Then open the file with Photoshop where you can see all information and text d…

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