I was asked by a friend from third year film production to help them with the visual effects for their graduation film "Flypaper", they had a particular sequence filmed underwater, in the sequence there was part where there was black rope suspending lights from the ground, the cinematographer asked me to get rid of it. keying something out is something simple to me, so is rotoscope. after trying out these techniques on the actual video it seemed to be impossible.
I tried tracking the footage underwater using either the built in AE tracker or the Mocha, but because there was so much parallax it seemed very fake, because of the light rays emitted in the water. the only way it seemed possible is if I use the clone stamp tool, that way I could even copy the rays the light emits accurately.
I did not know very much about the clone stamp tool video, the photo one is simple, but because I'm using timebase work / moving image, it seemed harder for me. I looked around Lynda and YouTube for tutorials, and I did some tests before going back to uni, to make sure I've mastered it.
I tried tracking the footage underwater using either the built in AE tracker or the Mocha, but because there was so much parallax it seemed very fake, because of the light rays emitted in the water. the only way it seemed possible is if I use the clone stamp tool, that way I could even copy the rays the light emits accurately.
I did not know very much about the clone stamp tool video, the photo one is simple, but because I'm using timebase work / moving image, it seemed harder for me. I looked around Lynda and YouTube for tutorials, and I did some tests before going back to uni, to make sure I've mastered it.
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