[Chris Horn]

Heh. All bias aside it looks pretty cool. I am an instant gratification guy tho…why no itunes delivery?

Any idea how they did those old commercials with Humphrey Bogart drinking a pepsi? They were doing what I am trying to do, pulling a figure from some piece of video and dropping that figure into another. Is it all armies of frame by frame manual masking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdnE0OxvhkI

The Beatles Rock band commercial here is also doing it I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JlvZZTQOI

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[Chris Horn]

This seems pretty much a non-starter. I have tried laying out the mask then adding analyze motion with as many trackers as the points in my mask, then track points. The control points seem to find the track points ok, but after analyze it really isn’t affecting the mask in any meaningful way. The points seem to jump around, sometimes in what seems to be a meaningful way, other times completely randomly.

To me this looks like a frame by frame point by point adjustment exercise. I am sure I am missing some basic point on motion tracking, track points, or bezier masks.

I see you both have tutorial products, which I would be willing to shell out for as long as they speak at least in part to this specific problem vs some general overview. Otherwise, this is probably too time intensive frame by frame to be useful.

Are there any other tools that handle it better?

[Chris Horn]

Yep. I have a figure who is mugging for the camera, want to isolate him from background for some other work. Angle of his body shifts a bit and there are a couple zooms in and out.