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Removing a Reflection in AE
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22 May 2007
Hi everyone,
This time I'm doing a request from someone over at Stu Maschwitz's DV Rebel Cafe, Mr. Mark Harris. His post is here:
http://rebelsguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=336
He was looking for feedback regarding a reflection removal he did, and did well, I might add. He stretched the picture to cover/remove the area with the reflection in it, which, while it worked fine, introduced 2 other problems - He had to roto his actor's head throughout the entire shot, and this is hard enough without throwing wispy hair into the mix (which there is), and it distorted the painting, which, in this case, is probably fine because I think it's his own movie he's making, but on a real production, RARELY to they let you alter things they are not paying you to alter. Usually, any parts of the shot that do not need to be touched, should not be touched.
So I told him I'd happily show him what I would've done in this instance, and asked if I could make a video tutorial out of it, since I think this kind of thing may be a common problem.
There's no audio, it's about 40 minutes (80 megs), and I don't show me painting the fixed image in Photoshop (i assume everyone can do that), and I don't really tweak the matte I create for the hair until it looks 100% perfect (which you can see in the image above), but i show you how to do it all - I leave the tweaking to you!
Here's the tutorial AVI and the final rendered MOV.
http://www.mackdadd.com/tutorials/Hype_ ... remove.avi
http://www.mackdadd.com/tutorials/hype_ ... _final.mov
And here's the quicktime version, which is much bigger (173 Megs), but should play absolutely for everyone.
http://www.mackdadd.com/tutorials/Hype_ ... move_2.mov -
22 May 2007dude, you are the man. Now did you use that feathermabob dealie?
:p
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andyburm 35 posts23 May 2007 -
23 May 2007
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24 May 2007wow, cool, a plug! wasn't expecting that just for this little tutorial!
thanx!
For those of you who don't know how to turn an individual color channel into a matte, I show how to do that in this tutorial. I use the red channel to create a matte of the guys hair, so you don't have to roto hair. -
24 May 2007Hey, this is weird. In VLC the avi shows up like this:
It doesn't play in Quicktime or in Divx player, either. Know what's wrong? What codec is this? I really wanna see this tutorial - it sounds awesome.
Thanks!
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24 May 2007weird - it should just be a mpeg4 AVI.
maybe i'll recompress it as a MOV tonight. -
29 May 2007Hype, thanks for this great tutorial! In fact without wanting to sound like a kiss-ass all your tutorials are fantastic - I've learned a lot by watching over the past few days. Now all I need are some projects to try these new techniques!
Cheers, Christian. -
30 May 2007thanx Christian! i'm honored
so i tried recompressing this tutorial as a MOV, Colin, but it's HUGE - like 178 Megs.
Should I upload it? Do enough people want it as a MOV file that I should upload that version?
Colin, PM me your mailing address and I'll happily send you a CD or DVD with the MOV on it. -
30 May 2007Hey Hype, it'd be cool if you could upload it! If you didn't want to host such a large file I could put it on my server for at least a few weeks.
But you could probably get the file size down to something comparable to the .avi. Did you try using a Sorenson or H.264?
Thanks for doing this! Has nobody else had a problem viewing the avi?
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31 May 2007
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31 May 2007Ok, it's uploaded, I added the link to the bottom of the first post up there.
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17 Jun 2007Hey Hype, thanks for recompressing!
I just got a chance to watch it and I definitely learned a lot from it, never would have occurred to me to try to use a matte instead of masks to bring the hair to the foreground.
Anyway, great tutorial and thanks for making it!
--Colin
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