Tyler Wiethorn
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It’s entirely legal to do what he’s attempting, so long as the DVD is for his own personal archival use, and so long as he keeps the original VHS. Should he throw or give the VHS away, he would also need to throw away the DVD copy. The fact that the medium of archive is different than the original source makes no difference under fair use. These rights are firmly established and supported by the courts and law.
However, what’s more the problem is that it is almost certain the these Disney VHS tapes are copy protected with Macrovision. Even though it’s fairly trivial to subvert Macrovision’s analog copy protection scheme, the very act of doing so violates the DMCA and therefore opens one to legal liability, in theory both criminal and civil. If by some chance these VHS tapes are not protected by Macrovision, then he’s totally in the clear.
In practice, so long as he isn’t distributing anything and maintains possession of the original tapes, it’s extremely unlikely he has anything to worry about, from the ‘long arms’ of Disney or anyone else.
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A shot like that you might be able to pull a luma key if you can get it dialed in just right. Trying taking that frame into Photoshop and applying curves. Then use the eyedropper adjustment to build a curve that really lifts that luma on the white screen, while keeping the guy as dark as possible. Then export that curve profile and import it into curves in After Effects and apply it to this clip. (I say to use photoshop because the curves adjustment interface is much better, AE requires a lot more guessing) From there, make as tight a garbage matte as you can, apply threshold and give it a light blur. Use that layer as an luma matte to the original footage. I would try this before you start down the roto road.
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Seems like AE’s Shatter effect would do the trick. It’s a little cumbersome to use, and to get it in reverse I think you’ll actually have to precomp and time remap, but it will let you scatter slices of an image.
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Think about what real camera shake looks like. Wiggle position, point of interest, and rotation.
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Thanks Dan!
That wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but set me down the right track and I was able to get what I needed. It’s working the way I’d like now.