Debbie King
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Thanks Scott:
I appreciate the feedback. I was thinking about upgrading to 13, because of the crashes I experience when rendering. It has not happened lately, but when I was rendering my trailer it happened often.
Thank you for the info on mixing down the tracks to two stems.
Best,
Debbie
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Thanks John. That’s great to hear. I have been using Audacity and was wondering if I needed to get anything else.
Thank you.
All the best,
Debbie
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Hi Colin:
Thank you. I am so sorry for seeing this post so late. I was paying close attention to my earlier posts. I will definitely get the book.
I was talking to the composer the other day about stems. He was going to make about 4. Now I see that two is sufficient. Thank you so much for this information.
All the best,
Debbie
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Hi Grazie:
Here’s the photo of the last attempt to cover the shadow. I used the picture on top of picture approach. As mentioned, I took a small part of the wall and filled it in with content aware. With a solid color wall, it may have been a perfect fit, but this is a patterned wall with grooves, and the grooves are stretched. I supposed I have to determine which is more distracting, a moving shadow however slight, or a part of a wall that’s slightly different than the rest.
Your thoughts!
Many thanks,
Debbie
P.S. The area on top that looks like a tear. I can redo and have it placed somewhere unseen; like the bottom perhaps.
ORIGINAL
PIXALATE, FILL LIGHT AND BUMP MAP
PIXALATE OF PART OF WALL NEXT TO ATTACHED PIC
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Hi Dave:
You hit it on the nose. It was a crew member’s shadow that appears in and out throughout certain shots in the film.
I am new to After Effects and will look into the masking idea. The wall is a wood panel with grooves, so covering up the wall with a mask may have its challenges since what I cover the wall with should match. These are medium close up shots too. Time Remapping sounds really interesting. I will look into that as well.
Thank you so much Dave.
Best,
Debbie
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Hi Grazie:
Thank you for the file. I have it open in Vegas now, and I see what you did. Amazing.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi Grazie:
I got it. What I did was go back into Photoshop cut out the picture and leave a very small portion of the wall. Then I went to fill and filled in the transparent space with the current content. I then saved it as a Jpeg and dropped into a separate video track in Sony to create a picture on top of picture effect. I went into the video/crop tool and positioned it over the shadow area. It was completely covered. Since this is not a solid color wall, the texture is a bit off, a little stretched. I think I can live with it. Since it still looks like a panel, I believe I can get away with it.
When I placed it over a duplicate video track it was superimposed and I could still see the shadow. When I used the other technique in my previous post, I could still see some of the shadow because it was a PNG which made the file transparent.
This technique the photo is 100% opaque that covers the shadow completely.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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You did this in Vegas Pro alone? Really? I am running Vegas Pro 12.
I thought for sure I would have to work with a third party to get the opacity over the shadow. As mentioned, I tried Photoshop partial transparency by cutting the photo out and leaving just the wall in 100% opacity. Darkening the wall in levels and saving it as a PNG. My discovery is that even though it is opaque in Photoshop, by my saving it as a PNG, it makes the entire file transparent, which means that some of the shadow is still seen.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi Grazie:
It’s better than what I came up with. How did you do it?
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi Terrence:
Thank you. I will update you when I start working on it and share which works best.
Many thanks,
Debbie
