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Creating the fill layer using the reference frame

Creating the fill layer using the reference frame - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering Content-Aware Fill

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Creating the fill layer using the reference frame

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- [Instructor] Now that we're in After Effects, we're going to use this Content-Aware Fill. You see the reference frame is down here to help. Now what's necessary is we're going to choose fill. We'll go with the object method, with a slight expansion, and tell it do the entire duration. Now, I need to click Generate Fill Layer. It's going to analyze. Hopefully these pixels will be enough to cover the entire range. If not though, we can adjust and create a new mask, and do a secondary fill. It's now analyzing the shot, and depending upon the speed of your machine, this can take a few minutes. Be patient while it looks at the existing footage. This is a pretty complex scene. So it's going to need to use a lot of analysis to calculate the new pixels. Now that the analysis is complete, it's generating the new frames. Again, this scene is a bit longer, so it will take a little bit of time. While this is happening,…

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