Mask Points & Motion Tracking


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Mask Points & Motion Tracking
by Sebastian Ballek on Aug 14, 2008 at 8:34:22 pm

I was thinking about better/faster ways to Rotoscope.

My question is, isn't there any way to atach a single mask point to a motion track?

For example:
I have a null-object moving.
I have a mask with 5 points.
How can I "pick whip" just 1 point of the mask to the position of the null object.

Is such thing posible?
If not, is there a similar way?

Cheers
Sebastian Ballek

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Re: Mask Points & Motion Tracking
by Dave LaRonde on Aug 14, 2008 at 9:00:26 pm

There's a script available (never used it) that will do what you want....sort of. It does NOTHING to adjust the positions of Bezier handles. I don't know about you, but I use the Bezier handles all the time if I have to rotoscope.

There just isn't a good way to automate rotoscoping. If one existed -- and it REALLY did the trick -- you can bet it would be all over the place in this forum.

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA

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Re: Mask Points & Motion Tracking
by Sebastian Ballek on Aug 15, 2008 at 3:34:52 am

Yeah, I use bezier handles a lot too, it would be imposible to rotoscope without them.

I had just the ilusion to become a miraculous response about it, but you are right, if there were such a technique, it would be all over the place.

Maybe each of us should send a mail to adobe expecting that they create this tool in the next AE version. (Or an aditional rotoscoping plug-in)

:D

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