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Re: Problems with watertank effects and ink drops.

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Re: Problems with watertank effects and ink drops.
by Kevin Camp on May 20, 2009 at 6:54:23 pm

i'm not sure how you're set up, but i would shoot black ink on a white background, then generate a matte from that rather than 'key' the ink.

a big advantage of this is you can work with just the luminance values of the clip and avoid the lower quality, more highly compressed components of the video signal. applying the tint effect will effectively extract just the luminance from the footage which is the cleanest channel to work with. then it's just a matter of adjusting levels/curves and some rotoscoping to clean up any debris/lighting issues...

Kevin Camp
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