Recently, we had to work with several interlaced broadcast quality commercials, so we looked to one of Andrew Kramer’s classic tutorials on how to deinterlace videos. The technique requires you to use an image of black and white lines as an Luma matte in After Effects to remove every other line in the picture, then use Directional blur to fill in the empty lines. View full article »
Whenever hair is involved, compositing a video is tough. Masking it out to place over a new background is a tricky job, even if the footage was shot on a green screen. Simply keying the green isn’t enough. It will inevitably take away too much of the ends of hair, leaving the chunky head looking matted down. That’s why it’s so important to keep the feathery edges and blend them with the background. Learn how in this tutorial. I’ll show you some simple tricks in After Effects to composite a “hairy” subject onto a new scene. View full article »
As requested from our internet audience, here is a breakdown of the Adobe Social Networking video with before and after shots. The original footage will display first and then wipe to the final edited version, showing color correction, rotoscoping, and inserted graphics. View full article »
The holographic effects in “Social Networking”, the third video in our Adobe Open Screen Project series, involved two scenes that required superimposing graphic objects over live-action footage. The plan was to insert a semi-transparent newspaper over the bendable screen in the cafe scene, and a 3D animated video game racetrack onto a table in the final scene. Both instances were filmed with 3D camera movements and therefore the 3D assets had to motion match to the video. To do that we tracked the footage using SynthEyes. View full article »
