I have had good luck with wire removal effect, just do a raw track first and connect the two effect points to the track with, and set the width to be as wide as your area to erase.

it will pull in pixels from around the area you want to erase.

then some roto on the arm and a new shadow made from a solid should do the trick

I mostly use Mocha AE to track in clean plates from photoshop and it works great.
Mocha Pro has a remove module that does magic.If you have the budget, it works great. 

If you have not learned Mocha AE yet, take an hour and do a tutorial or two.

You will be happy you did. It really is that special.

patrick siemer

www.vimeo.com/siemer

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Roei Tzoref <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

...and theres also AE's stamp tool which works the same as photoshop.

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Roei Tzoref <yooofi@gmail.com> wrote:

content aware in AE - that would be something...

the usual practice is to create a clean plate still in photoshop (with content aware or other)

and bring it back to AE and with tracking data attach it over the dirty part.

also add levels and change the histogram according to lighting changes

and add grain.

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Lachlan Westfall <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Sorry, I don't know how to make the subject more specific.

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.

Sometimes they write something on the whiteboard that "network legal" doesn't like. My job is to remove it, or fix it.

If it was a Still in Photoshop, I would just use "content aware fill" and be done with it, but it's not.

Right now, I just track a solid and apply 4-color gradient to match the whiteboard. This works 80-percent of the time.

However, sometimes a shadow of an arm goes across the area. Yes, I try to animate the colors but it's not so great.

I guess my question is: is there any technique in AE that can (per frame) act like "content aware fill" in Photoshop?

Thanks.

-Lachlan





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