I do similar work on TVCs, I generally do the same thing Roei said - make a clean plate, sometimes in PS with content aware fill, then track it back in. There is no shortcut in AE.
However if you do a lot of this then check out Mocha Pro - I’m fairly sure it has tools to automatically make clean plates. The tracking is faster, better and friendlier than within AE.
It could be that the tool you’re looking for is not content-aware fill in AE, but simply an upgrade to Mocha Pro.
-Chris
(PS I’m not that familiar with the full product range of Imagineer, so it could be one of the other products that does it, but I’m sure one of their products makes clean plates automatically)
> On 19 Jul 2015, at 11:16 am, Lachlan Westfall <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
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> Sorry, I don't know how to make the subject more specific.
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> I'm working on a few crime-solving TV shows. One of the themes is that they write stuff with markers on whiteboards. As the show develops, the whiteboards get filled with more and more information. And they often refer back to the whiteboards. These are NOT lockdown shots. It's all hand-held.
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> Sometimes they write something on the whiteboard that "network legal" doesn't like. My job is to remove it, or fix it.
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> If it was a Still in Photoshop, I would just use "content aware fill" and be done with it, but it's not.
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> Right now, I just track a solid and apply 4-color gradient to match the whiteboard. This works 80-percent of the time.
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> However, sometimes a shadow of an arm goes across the area. Yes, I try to animate the colors but it's not so great.
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> I guess my question is: is there any technique in AE that can (per frame) act like "content aware fill" in Photoshop?
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> Thanks.
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> -Lachlan
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