Originally Posted by Mike Thorpe
Originally Posted by Alan Mills Do as you suggested in Photoshop. It will not take as long as you thought, believe me. You are going to yank a guy off his feet. I suspect you will have at most about a second of footage to edit. This will be 25/30 frames to touch up. If you're used to Photoshop then a quick clone brush would only tgake an hour to do this lot. |
I don't think that this will work. If he's cloning each individual frame, then it's extremely unlikely that he's going to be cloning from the same spot on each image, so the background won't be consistent. |
In photoshop you are allowed to 'cut' a piece of the background out from one still and you'll be able to 'paste' it over the top of all the other stills. The 'replace' will be as consistent as you want it to be. thge only (slightly) awkward bit is making sure you do the 'paste' from the same pixel each time or they will not line up. Just make sure you cut and paste the entire frame with most of it as transparent. It will then always line up.
This is exactly how I did the 'walk through the title' shot of 'Final Hit' for the last comp. It doesn't 'wobble' one bit.
And anyway, if it's good enough for T2 then it's good enough for all of us anyway. Juyst check out the motorbike jump again in that movie. It's really obvious where the wires were because they were early piooneers and hadn't got it quite right back then
I agree though, if you have access and can afford the learning curve, After Effects would be the way to go.