How do you get this effect?
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Gallup
- Joined: Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:57 pm
How do you get this effect?
This question has most likey been asked before, but whot program can you use to get the effect where you take one part of a scene, such as a person, and place them on a completely different background? I have been trying to figure this out for months now and am at a complete loss. I have heard that Adobe can do this, but I use DIVX and XVID files for my editing and as most people know the two do not go together. Please reply if you can help me out.
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Kalium
- Sir Bugsalot
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Re: How do you get this effect?
OK, this is not a simple thing. You have to mask the characters out frame by frame to put them on a new background. You can, hypothetically, do it with any photoediting prog and a video editing prog capable of masking.
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TaranT
- Joined: Wed May 16, 2001 11:20 pm
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shakespeare
- Joined: Sun Dec 21, 2003 1:14 am
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What u wanna do by the sounds of it is rotoscope the charater out of one scene then superimpose him onto a new one.
I would suggest the best way to go about it if ure using divx/xvid as ure source, is 1st get a copy of somthing like virtualdub and re-encode ure source clip with somthing like a lossless codec. This will give u the ability to import it into adobe after-effect.
Once you manage to get it into that program, set up you timeline around the clip you want to rotoscope, and using a technique called "vector paint" inside after-effects, you can change the background around the character to any single solid color u like. Be prepared to spend alot of time at it, u hafta go through the clip frame by frame and paint it out.
Then, all u need to do is key out the solid color u painted on as the background, then using a couple simple layers, set the new background you want to use behind the layer you key'd.
I would suggest the best way to go about it if ure using divx/xvid as ure source, is 1st get a copy of somthing like virtualdub and re-encode ure source clip with somthing like a lossless codec. This will give u the ability to import it into adobe after-effect.
Once you manage to get it into that program, set up you timeline around the clip you want to rotoscope, and using a technique called "vector paint" inside after-effects, you can change the background around the character to any single solid color u like. Be prepared to spend alot of time at it, u hafta go through the clip frame by frame and paint it out.
Then, all u need to do is key out the solid color u painted on as the background, then using a couple simple layers, set the new background you want to use behind the layer you key'd.