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

Generating the fill layer - After Effects Tutorial

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

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Generating the fill layer

- [Instructor] Now that we have a selection made, and an area of transparency, we're ready to move on. Now if you don't see this grid here, it might be because you don't have the Transparency Grid clicked. It doesn't really matter. You can view it as black, or view it as the transparent pixels. Whatever helps you better visualize. When you're ready, look at your settings. I suggest a slight expansion for better blending. And for this scene, the Object method should work best. I can click Generate Fill Layer. What it's going to do is first, analyze the clip. Depending upon the runtime of the clip, as well as the size of the frame and the speed of your computer, this can take anywhere from several minutes to just a few seconds. What it's doing is very similar to the Warp Stabilizer. It's looking at the footage, getting familiar with it, and starting to process it. Let's let this finish out. Once the analysis is complete, it's going to render new frames. This may take a few seconds as well. If you start to drag through early, you'll see flickers as frames are available in some places, but not others. Go ahead and leave the playhead at the beginning and let the rendering complete. Once it's done, you can press the space bar and do a RAM preview. I suggest that you preview at full quality. It should go relatively quick. It's looking pretty good. You did a great job of sampling those pixels from before and after, and filling them in. I think that did a very solid job there. And I love how smooth it looks. Once the frames are cached, you'll see it play in real time. Even though this scene is very complex with sand, and water, and waves, and froth, it really handled it quite well. All right. Let's go on and explore some more options when using Content-Aware Fill.

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