[Jim Dodson]

Aharon you were there for me when I was just starting out — thank you so much for your years of volunteerism!! Your selflessness is inspiring!!

Jim Dodson

8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

[Jim Dodson]

To elaborate on one of Darby’s suggestions:
I had incredible luck using temporal noise reduction on DVCPro HD footage that was very noisy when keying:

Adding the “remove grain” filter to your compressed footage will be a great help in reducing noisey keys — make sure you use “temporal filtering” as follows (from AE 7 help):

To add temporal filtering to a sequence
Apply the Remove Grain effect to your image.
Place the Remove Grain preview region over the area of the image that has the most subtle changes from frame to frame or that has the most moving image detail.
Select Enable in the Temporal Filtering controls.
Adjust the Amount value to 100%.
Create a RAM preview of the sequence or render it.
If you see unwanted streaking or blurs around moving objects, reduce the Motion Sensitivity value, and then preview or render it again.
Try the following techniques if you want to improve the results:
To quickly reduce the noise of a sequence that has a lot of buzzing noise, set the Noise Reduction value to zero and the Temporal Filtering Amount to 100%, and render the sequence.
To speed up previews, apply temporal filtering to your sequence after all the settings for a single frame have been adjusted.

Jim Dodson

8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

[Jim Dodson]

Wow –nice, Dave.

Chris, you might also try changing”replace method” (found under “screen matte”) to “source”

Jim Dodson

8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

[Jim Dodson]

Scott,

If you do use the HVX ( as a previous poster mentioned) the footage will be noisy!! (It might be noisy regardless of the camera or resolution shot, so….

I had incredible luck using temporal noise reduction:

Adding the “remove grain” filter to your compressed footage will be a great help in reducing noisey keys — make sure you use “temporal filtering” as follows (from AE 7 help):

To add temporal filtering to a sequence
Apply the Remove Grain effect to your image.
Place the Remove Grain preview region over the area of the image that has the most subtle changes from frame to frame or that has the most moving image detail.
Select Enable in the Temporal Filtering controls.
Adjust the Amount value to 100%.
Create a RAM preview of the sequence or render it.
If you see unwanted streaking or blurs around moving objects, reduce the Motion Sensitivity value, and then preview or render it again.
Try the following techniques if you want to improve the results:
To quickly reduce the noise of a sequence that has a lot of buzzing noise, set the Noise Reduction value to zero and the Temporal Filtering Amount to 100%, and render the sequence.
To speed up previews, apply temporal filtering to your sequence after all the settings for a single frame have been adjusted.

Jim Dodson

8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

[Jim Dodson]

Thanks, Dan!! That worked!!

Jim Dodson

8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

[Jim Dodson]

Take your layer — make a duplicate above it. Using the mask tool make a box choosing the area just above the guy pushing the dolly up to where the ridge meets the sky .
Then unlock the scale for that duplicate layer and make the scale: 100, 444% — now move the position of that duplicate layer: 640 761
Now have the layer fade in starting at frame 29 and ending at 82…

This fades on a plug that moves in exact sync with the original and smears a plug over the offending reflection — you would then need to rotoscope the plug off the mans left arm…

Not perfect but possibly better than nothing?

Jim Dodson

8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

[Jim Dodson]

If you can do it in After Effects, here’s a great link…
smooth credits in AE

https://www.mercuryjones.com/aepresets.html

Jim Dodson

8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

[Jim Dodson]

On the layer that has the mask(s) if you hit “MM” to reveal all mask properties then click on “Mask Path” and hit copy.

Then click on the Point of Interest and hit “paste” (Apple “V” on a Mac) — this will copy the mask’s x/y coordinates to the point of interest of your camera. (You may then need to highlight all the keyframes it created (some will be roving keyframes) then “Option” drag the far right keyframe to spread out the keyframes to cover then length of time it take to fully stroke your mask.

Hope this is what you were after — though you already solved your problem with a workaround it sounds like….

Jim Dodson

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[Jim Dodson]

First of all — cool work Nathan…

I suggest that you need to add some displacement to the BG to forshadow the arrival of your scarey guys…

There’s a great tutorial on the COW that covers this by Eran Stern
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Invisible_Cape.php

Then you can also add displacement to the Scarey guys as they are morphing on…

Good stuff!!

Jim Dodson

8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

[Jim Dodson]

Is your composition frame rate set to 23.976?

Jim Dodson

8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX