wire removal in Motion

I have a line in the sky of one of my shots. I am wondering if there is a way to remove the line using Motion. I figure that a similar technique to that used to remove wires which support actors in risky scenes should work here but I am unsure of how to go about the technique.
Can anyone post some suggestions or tips?

Dual 2.7 PowerMac G5 & 17" Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 6.5GB RAM, 2x250GB HD

Posted on May 30, 2009 2:06 PM

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May 30, 2009 9:28 PM in response to Andy Neil

The shot is locked down and the line doesn't move at all. It is a shot of an eagle in a tree which won't be easy to get again so if I can salvage the shot I would like to. I tried painting it out by trying to match my color to the sky around it but it always seemed to leave a distinct line and I am wondering if there are techniques or something I am missing or that might work better than simply painting over it.

May 30, 2009 11:35 PM in response to stickman_dj

You could :

1) Make a copy of your footage and put it on top of the original
2) Take the beziertool and draw a shape about the size of your line on some other place in your copyfootage with similar color and look. You might have to feather it quite a bit.
3) Right click on your copy layer and select add mask - and select the beziershape you did as the mask (in the inspector)
4) Move the masked copyfootage on top of the line you want to remove to cover it.
5) Play around with feathering of the mask, maybe some colorcorrectionfilters, to make it blend together.
Its important to see the footage play in realtime to see if the two layers blend well together. It might take a bit of tweaking and experiments with picking the right spot to cover with - but it sound like your footage is worth it 🙂 Hope this could help you.

Good luck

Morten

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