Creating Super Tight Junk Mattes
Creating Super Tight Junk Mattes
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Aharon Rabinowitz
New York, USA
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Comments | | | |  | Re: Tutorial: Creating Super Tight Junk Mattes
by Oliver Buckie 22602207 |
Great tutorial Aharon - many thanks!
However, in both AE CS4 & CS5 I am having a problem Auto-trace... I have some green screen footage of a person walking on the screen, talking and then walking off - about 1 min. When I do an Auto-trace, the result is only a few masks of 2 to 5 frames within the movie - the whole walking on/off bit has been completely ignored and most arm/leg movements as the person is talking too. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
Thanks for any feedback / tips. | | | | |
| | | | In every attempt auto-trace cuts off a good portion of the intended matte (just like Jeremy's problem).
Any suggestions?
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| | | | Allways when i see the video tutorial i feel silly, cause i never have the same version of AF, and use some plugin that i haven't. It will usefull if the people who make the tutorial, tell the current versión of the AF that he used, and if he used a plugin.
But anyway, thats a good tutorial. | | | | |
| | | | what is it? I cant wrap my head around it! | | | | |
| | | | that's a new one to me. I wish I had an answer. | | | | |
| | | | This has been a great technique for me, but I often run into this: the auto-trace will cut off a section of the intended matte, usually something that doesn't move much, like a standing person's legs. The mask on the first frame is good, but after that the mask ends abruptly at some unknown edge.
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/6808/picture10sp9.png
Any ideas? I've fiddled around and gotten it to work, but I couldn't pin down what specifically did it. Other times, nothing doing. | | | | |
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