Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv — Message #58266
From: J Bills <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Sender: <mrbills@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Complicated rig removal
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:15:45 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Without seeing it - yes Mocha is a great call.  PFtrack also has some great object tracking tools that could be used to either stabilize the area of the plate or do a CG style replacement on that section of the car that could be rinse/repeated on the other views.

In Nuke, my guess is the camera tracker/projection/point cloud tools probably wouldn't fare very well.  It sounds like an object track situation, which Nuke is not set up well for.  Nuke can only do cameras.  It does have a serviceable planar tracker, though, which is a notch down from Mocha in my experience but might be worth trying.  It gets better each release.

Good luck!


On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
I was chatting about this with a co-worker, I recently had a difficult roto job that totally stumped me and I wasn’t happy with my end result.  He routinely outsources roto to freelancers and for anything serious it’s really best to use dedicated roto specialists.

In short, for complex roto you need to look beyond AE.  Most of the time the freelancers he uses are using Mocca, but he said that for really complex and difficult shots the point-cloud and projection / geometry tools in Nuke are the most powerful option.  Can’t tell you any more than that as it’s not my area, but that’s what he said...

On 28 Jul 2015, at 3:08 pm, David Torno <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Would Mocha Pro's remove tool be of any help? I've seen it do some pretty incredible cleanup. May not get 100% of it, but if it takes any painting burden off of you, it may be worth a try.

David Torno
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On Jul 27, 2015, at 9:01 PM, "Teddy Gage" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Trying to figure out how to remove a rig planted on the back of a racecar running around a track, that holds 7 gopro cameras. There is no clean plate, and obviously the road, shadows and lighting on and around the rig change constantly. it's shot at 80 fps on 7 cameras so manual roto is virtually out of the question. And budget.

Ive tried a track matte over the rig (which is fixed) with blurred clone strokes but the background changes too much. 

Client does not want to hide the rig with a blur matte or cover up. Running out of options. Is there something I'm forgetting?


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