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Removing the background bird

Removing the background bird - After Effects Tutorial

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Removing the background bird

- [Instructor] Now in the previous course on environments, we looked extensively at how to remove stuff from shots. We looked at a bunch of different ways to do that, and we have that similar problem in this shot. I don't know what it is about me that when I film things, birds love to get cameos and fly through my shot, but there's another thing I didn't notice on set. I'm going to come down here to the Taani first light comp and I'm going to take off the visibility of the bird crossing patch later so we can see the original source footage. So again, it's very subtle and I didn't recognize this on set, and actually I'll just go ahead and solo this layer so it previews a little faster, but as I preview this, you can see right there this bird just pops its lovely little head in and creates this distracting little thing. And I wanted to cover how to fix that or how I fixed that because we didn't cover this technique in the previous course because this is an actual, a real easy fix…

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