Bill Kelly
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Whoops, I just reread your post. You could use the same plugin I said above, just start with Scatter at a high number, then keyframe it to reduce to 0.
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If your subject is green screened, you could use Effects>Simulation>CC Scatterize, then fade out the particles after they’ve scattered.
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If you have or know anybody with Final Cut or Shake, the Smoothcam filter may work on your shot as far as getting some stabilization.
I don’t think you’re going to have much luck getting rid of the black background without doing some serious rotoscoping, as Dave and Steve have said.
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The Scatterize effect may also work for your situation. To make it look good, you would most likely want to introduce a blur on the scatterizing (is that really a word) layer as the scatterizing is taking place, and enable motion blur for the layer and the comp.
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Check out NASA World Wind. Basically it’s Google Earth but a lot of it is free for commercial use. You’ll have to read the terms on their web site and apply it to your specific situation, but there’s a pretty good chance you can save yourself $400 and get exactly what you’re looking for.
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
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You could try animating a mask around his head and then using Effect>Color Correction>Replace Color. There’s a very, very good chance this will look like complete crap, but it’s worth a shot testing it out on a few frames to see what it looks like. Also, I agree with what was said, charge DEARLY for this. Let them learn their lesson.
Otherwise, like everyone else has mentioned, it’s probably cheaper to reshoot. -
If I was in your exact situation, what I would do is shoot everything on the greenscreen this weekend. When you have all the footage, transcode the HDV to a different codec (ProRes is great if you’ll be editing in Final Cut Pro). Stay away from codecs like HDV and H.264 if you’re going to be keying green screen footage.
With everything shot on greenscreen, you can then take the time to figure out exactly what you want in the background. It’s just as easy to put a white screen or black screen with some animation on it behind the actors once you’ve keyed them out in After Effects. -
Have you tried pre-comping the original layer that you applied keylight to, then applying keylight to the precomp? That may work. Otherwise, you could try prerendering the keylight layer with the little patch of green showing, then apply keylight to the prerender.
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You’re probably better off knowing some simple basics in PS before you start AE, but if you apply yourself and just straight to AE you should be able to get it.
You could check out Videocopilot’s AE Basic Training (it’s free!) at https://videocopilot.net/basic and see if it makes any sense after you go through it. If it does make some sense, then you’re probably all right.
I work in AE a lot and only grudgingly go over to PS when I absolutely need to. If fact, a lot of times if I need to make or manipulate a still image, I’ll do it in After Effects and export a still .psd file from AE. Just easier for me, although other people’s mileage may vary.
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Sometimes I think the easiest way is the best. Bring the footage you are going to use to be on the TV into After Effects and Interpret Footage>>Separate Fields>>Off. This will only work if your footage is interlaced and not progressive. You’ll see all the interlacing lines. Just add a little blue using Curves, Levels, Tint, or whatever you like, and add a small glow.