Q: Removing background object using Motion?
Hi,
I'm editing a video shot in a conference room of a hotel. Behind the speaker is a very ugly large, metal door handle (from the emergency exit behind him.) It looks like it's going right through his head. Is there any way of removing this object using Motion (or even FCP7)? I have Motion 4. I don't have any footage of the speaker without the obstruction being there.
Any tips are appreciated. Thanks!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.4 GHZ Intel Core Duo 6GB RAM
Posted on May 20, 2014 6:19 PM
quiensera wrote:
Is there a way to paint over the object? It's pretty large, though, so maybe that would be too noticeable.
That is essentially what rotoscoping is; you make a image sequence out of your footage and work it in Pdhop and then re-assemble it. But it has masive drawbacks in that everything must match perfectly or the background "shakes" in playback, and it is painstakingly slow. I did a 5-second clip once that took like 3 hours to perfect.
There may be sone high-end software like Mocha that can do it, but that means bucks out and training time.
Wish I had good news...
Posted on May 22, 2014 2:46 PM