Erasing Lines

[Dougyfresh13]

I was wondering if anyone had any tips on erasing harness lines or any type of unwanted material in after effects

 

[MarkG]

Not sure about After Effects, but Fusion has a wire-removal tool where you just mark the lines on the shot and it automatically removes them (with a few sliders for how wide the wires are, etc). As well as wires I've used it for removing power cables, etc, that were accidentally left in the shot.

I presume After Effects must have something similar?

 

[atreeves]

AE Wire removal

AE Wire removal

Hmm, I've removed a few of these before from different shots but found w/ AE it REALLY depends on the shot and whats going on as to how you're going to remove it. If the shot is locked off, you can clone the shot, and roto the wire, using a time remapped BG plate and go that way. If its wire rigging on a person or handheld, get ready for frame by frame painting.

There are tools, like Commotion has to remove wire rigging, but the they work by basically drawing a path on the wire and then copying pixels from either side over the wire to cover it up. If you've shot DV or any sort of compressed video, this can be problematic at the best of times.

Best bet is hand roto and paint of the afflicted areas... I know, not fun...


Austin

 

[atreeves]

Okay forgive me for my post a minute ago, I'm tired and brain fried. I believe AE (in the pro version) includes an effect called CC Simple Wire Removal as part of the Cycore Effects PKG.

This isn't installed with AE, but should be on your AE disc as an extra or something like that (look for Cycore).

That does the same thing as I was talking about before w/ Commotion or other wire removals, it copies the pixels adjacent to the pathway... hope this helps.

Austin