Amv making

[Yui_Heartfilia]

Ok, so basically lately I've been watching a heap of AMV videos by BestAmvsOfAllTime and theres just a couple that have inspired me to try something
so heres the question, does anyone know how to photoshop or whatever program you use another completely different character into your video..?

[Shui]

Are you talking about rotoscoping? There's different solutions. Exporting the frames and Photoshopping them is quite an oldschool way to do it.

[Yui_Heartfilia]

umm..i'm not exactly sure what that is...sorry

[seasons]

What sort of ideas do you have?

It's probably best to start simple before moving on to stuff like that. Or maybe everyone just jumps straight into advanced effects now, I don't know.

[Sephirothskr]

Masking. Masking all the way.

[Scintilla]

Use the Pen tool (/paths/Bezier curves) in The GIMP or Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop or what have you. I made the mistake of using the polygonal lasso instead when I did my first video that required massive amounts of masking, because I didn't know any better, and it was an exercise in frustration (it did work, but it took loads more time than it should have).

[slimed]

i'd recommend using after effects for masking the character/s out of a scene and also for the compositing work it would take to realistically place the character/s into a different scene. otherwise i'd use the spot healing brush tool/clone stamp tool in photoshop for removing characters from a still.

[Yui_Heartfilia]

Well I'm just starting after effects but I've been doing sony vegas and photoshop for a while so do we just mask characters out of the scene and put different characters in .....?

[Shui]

I call Troll.

[seasons]

I made the mistake of using the polygonal lasso... it was an exercise in frustration

Can I ask why?