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kcR
02-27-2006, 09:24 PM
(i hope its not a repost)
I`ve been trying to find a precise tutorial on how to get the effect shown in this video:
www.dform1.com/qts/tv1newyork.mov (http://www.dform1.com/qts/tv1newyork.mov)
(being the characters precisely cut and imported from another footage). I reckon this has something to do with motion tracking thus i have browsed many tutorials on this topic (for After Effects and the most popular tools like boujou or matchmover) but still i couldnt figure out how to get that effect. Ill appreciate any help/feedback.
beaker
02-28-2006, 04:21 AM
It's simply a 3d camera in just about any compositing package moving around a bunch of flat planes. AE, Combustion, DF, Shake, Nuke, etc.. all can do this.

Matchmover/Boujou are only needed for matchmoving a live action plate. This is when you film in the real world and then need to reproduce the exact move of the camere in order for you to put 2d or 3d cgi objects in the scene that "stick".
kcR
02-28-2006, 05:20 PM
what i wanna know is how to import (maybe cut as a mask, dunno) those moving characters shown in the movie from another footage (for example the guy in the german helmet, the cat, the star trek guy etc).
NickJushchyshyn
03-01-2006, 01:30 AM
rotoscoped masks .... drawn frame-by-frame ..... unless they happend to use scenes where the characters were in front of a keyable background. For a quick spot like this, though, roto is generally the most direct approach.
kcR
03-01-2006, 08:56 AM
thx for help, altho i was hoping there was an easier (and faster) way to do that than drawing it frame by frame :S
beaker
03-01-2006, 11:14 PM
Many of those in the video are stills, so they only need to be roto'd for 1 frame. But if it is moving video, yea, gotta roto every frame.
aeres
03-04-2006, 08:28 AM
Many of those in the video are stills, so they only need to be roto'd for 1 frame. But if it is moving video, yea, gotta roto every frame.

Bringing back sweet memories involving 2 minutes of footage....
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