From the course: After Effects Guru: Time-Lapse 3D Motion and Compositing

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Removing people from a time-lapse shot

Removing people from a time-lapse shot

- A lot of things happen out of our control, especially when shooting timelapses. Shooting a scene for 30 minutes to three hours, something is bound to happen out of our control. Some people pop their head into our shot, there's dust on our lens, or even reflections from shooting through glass. Fear not, we can fix them, or at least most of them. Let's start with removing those people who love to photobomb our timelapses. So, for this first example, we're going to go ahead and remove some people that found their way into our shot. For this shot, we have Horseshoe Bend here, and as you can see it's a beautiful shot. The camera's dialing back, but lo and behold, who is this in the corner? We have some feet in our shot, right over here, you can see someone enjoys the view and they come up and they sit down with their feet, and basically mess up our timelapse. But, shooting a 45 minute, hour long, two hour long timelapse, something's bound to happen out of your control, and that's what…

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