On this tutorial, we’ll be how one can composite a number of movies utilizing clear plates in After Results so as to get the very best out of our lighting instruments that now we have available, when creating content material on a price range.
In a earlier tutorial we talked about how we are able to create clear plates. These embrace:
- The actor footage
- Clear plate 1
- Clear plate 2
Now let’s deliver all of them collectively.
Compositing in After Results
Now I’ve obtained three items of our footage for this demonstration. The highest layer consists of the ‘Actor Take’. The second layer is the ‘Clear Plate’ with out the actor. After which the final layer is ‘Clear Plate 2’ which is the uncovered plate.
Now we have to paint out the sunshine stands on either side. Then we have to perform a little little bit of rotoscoping or masking relying on what footage you are truly working with.
After which the ultimate part is to do some masking across the home windows to deliver out the publicity and to lastly tie all of it collectively.
So the very first thing to do is to start out eradicating the sunshine frames within the ‘Actor’ layer. Choose the Pen Instrument and masks across the mild frames, beginning with the one on the left.
This can take away the actor from the shot. So to deliver the actor again, merely change the masks properties from Add to Subtract.
And you will see now that the actor is again and that the sunshine on the left has been faraway from the scene. It is because what’s exhibiting
Nevertheless, you may discover we have just a little little bit of inconsistencies taking place across the space. And it is because it’s exhibiting the clear plate beneath which is a barely totally different publicity.
To repair this we are able to play with the masks properties just a little bit by altering the values of the Masks Feather and Masks Growth.
Do the identical with the opposite mild on the appropriate facet of the composition.
As soon as you have performed round with the Masks Feather and Masks Growth values, your composition ought to now appear like the picture under, with the lights efficiently eliminated.
Add The Uncovered Window
Now we wish to herald a few of the particulars from the uncovered window into our new shot. To do that, first let’s pre-compose out high two layers and rename them ‘Frames Eliminated’.
Then duplicate the layer and re-arrange them in order that ‘Clear Plate 2’ is in-between them.
Choose the highest layer and double click on into it. Then use the Roto Brush Instrument to attract contained in the torso of the actor that’s in entrance of the window. Then hit the Freeze button if you end up achieved.
When the method is accomplished, return into the composition, you may see that the actor has efficiently been rotoscoped.
Now relying in your footage, you might be able to get away with only one masks for the window. Nevertheless as a result of we hav e some cross bars, the lamp and different particulars within the scene, we’ll must do a number of particular person masks (together with adjusting the feather and enlargement values as we did earlier than).
As soon as you have achieved that, it’s best to get the complete particulars of the window exhibiting in your scene. Nevertheless it appears to be like a bit bizarre as a result of we have gone from a extremely overexposed part within the background to one thing that’s type of completely uncovered. This simply would not seem like this in actuality.
So let’s deliver the publicity again up just a little by going to our Results and Presets panel after which typing in Lumetri Colour. After which place it onto the Clear Plate 2 layer.
Now play with the settings within the Results Controls panel beneath Primary Correction to see if we are able to deliver it again into the realms of actuality.
You too can seize a Gaussian Blur impact and add some blurriness to the window.
Now you possibly can evaluate the shot earlier than and after to match the variations.
In order that’s how one can use some primary compositing instruments and methods in After Results utilizing simply primary results like masks and layers.
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