From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering Content-Aware Fill
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Creating an initial selection for tracking - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering Content-Aware Fill
Creating an initial selection for tracking
- [Instructor] In this case, we have a very big movement in the camera path. Not only is the subject moving but the camera's moving, and it's moving at a diagonal. This makes things a bit trickier. My suggestion is go to a good frame when the object is pretty clear. Now I'm going to add a marker here by dragging this over with the Shift key held down. It just gives me a good reference point to come back to. Now what I can do is zoom in, hold down the space bar to get the Hand tool, and create a fairly accurate path. I'll click the Pen tool and choose RotoBezier. And you see that it automatically starts to create curves. Here we go. I'm keeping it relatively tight to the subject. And closing the loop. Let's switch this from Add to None. As we drag through, obviously it doesn't stay in the right place. But this is easy to address. Going to that mark, I'll zoom out a little bit and select the mask.
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