retouchin frames
by Andrea Mino
on
Apr 1, 2008 at 4:04:35 am
Hello!
I have several clips that need to be "retouched" since external elements (wires, booms, among others) entered the frame. I was wondering what would be the best way to fix them. I have no previous experience doing this. Is AE an option? are there tutorials about it out there? haven't found any except one by Larry Jordan http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_garbage_mattes.html which i went through but had no luck exporting the frames back into a clip again from ImageReady (going through QT). About the clips: they were shot on HD, 24pA, 1920x1080, and they are part of movie that will be blown-up, which arises another question/problem? how to do this without creating much pixelation or "noise" (if that's the right word) on the big screen? Most of the clips, but not all, are relatively easy to fix cause of an even background, little or none camera movement, etc.
I'm using a Powerbook G4, 2 ram, 1.67ghz. FCP 5.1.4 and AE 6.5 (will my system be up for the challenge?...i am!)
any suggestion, idea, prayer will help.
thanks much
Re: retouchin frames by rene aguilar on Apr 2, 2008 at 11:21:24 pm
This is another tutorial about masking, maybe this will help u.
http://www.darkskies.info/masks.html Also you need to upgrade your vertion of AE to after effects 7 to work with HD footage. Is recommended to upgrade your hardware too, but this is not vital.
I don`t understand why your are using image ready. But if you plan to put your procesed video over anoter, I recommend to export in TGA format with alpha chanel.
Hope this was useful...
Sorry for my english :P
