[Scott Fowler]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

I’ve used the CS5 roto brush with some decent success. Enough success at least for the customer’s expectations. I’ve got several clips to do and I’ve been brushing in just the duck’s head and using a keyer underneath on a duplicate clip for the rest of the body. The edges around the rotoscoped head jutter just a little but it’s usable I guess.

It seems like it takes a VERY long time for frames to update from one roto key point to another once I’ve dragged out the “propogated” keyframe bars. Any ideas how to speed this up or is it just so memory intensive that I have to be super patient? I’ve been setting up a render even before all the roto frames are propogated and leaving it to finish rotoscoping and render out the clip overnight. Not ideal, but at least I’m sleeping while it’s working.

Thanks again for such great assistance!

[Scott Fowler]

Thanks Dustin. Downloading the trial version of AE CS5 just now and will see what results I get.

[Scott Fowler]

Thanks Eddie. I don’t have CS5, just CS4. I upgraded just before CS5 came out unfortunately. If I have to upgrade to make this happen I will charge it to the client most likely. Cheaper than a reshoot!

The outer edges are going to be garbage mattes as it is the sides of the greenscreen background.

Anyone else have any other suggestions before purchasing CS5 as a solution?