[Christina Rodriguez]

Well, why don’t you expand the mask and give it a shot. Are you using gradients? (I Believe that gradients don’t work in brushes, at least the old version of Illustrator I have)

C.R.

[Christina Rodriguez]

May I suggest that you work in a mask… I find it to be much more flexible incase you make a mistake…

Plus, lets say you remove the edges BUT they are too hard… If you Don’t have a mask it will be hard to blur the edges but not the actual image. With a mask, you don’t need to worry about blurring the image, only the mask. It is non destructive.

And to make it permanent, you can just drag it to the trash and select “Apply Mask”

C.R.

[Christina Rodriguez]

1. You may need to increase your Selection Tolerance
2. In Selet menu, select “Similar” and/or you can try “Grow”
3. Instead of using Magic wand, go to SELECT>Color Range. Play with the tolerance and you can select multiple colors or similar colors using shift-click.
4. YOu can also go to Select>Expand and specify how many pixels you would like to expand.

Let me know if you need more info.

C.R.

[Christina Rodriguez]

you may want to change your sequence setting (using Apple Pro Res 422 or DVC50).
I’m not sure if you can import with the DVCpro50 or Apple Pro Res, (if not just stick with the NTSC/DV) and just change the sequence setting.

Whats is the end use of the video? Will it be for TV/DVD? Or web only?

If web/computer only, use the De interlace filter (VIDEO filters).

If it is for TV broadcast, its supposed to be interlaced. Can you setup TV to view the project while working on it….

IF it is for a DVD, I’m bot sure about interlaced…

C.R.

[Christina Rodriguez]

Try this:

Duplicate your layer
Use the High Pass filter (In Filters> Other) (radius: 25)

Then change the layer mode to either Overlay, Soft Light or Hardlight (which ever you like best)

You could use a mask to soften areas, or change the opacity of the layer to soften effect and once you get a hang of it, in high pass, use different #’s…mess around with variations…)

There are external filters that do this as well, but this is a “free” way of doing it.

C.R.