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Rotoscoping using masks

Rotoscoping using masks - After Effects Tutorial

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Rotoscoping using masks

- [Narrator] We've almost finished with the first job but obviously we have a problem we can see the second line right at the start of the clip. So let's fix this with some good old rotoscoping technique. So I'm going to pause the playback over here, and I'm going to select the last clip, which is our main one, the one that we've stabilized. And I'm going to duplicate another copy by pressing COMMAND or CONTROL D. I'm going to take this copy about everything, and I'm also going to name it Mask so I know what it does. Now, I'm going to click and hold to select the Ellipse Tool over here. And then I'm going to drag across this shape to create some sort of a mask, which should accompany the major part of this globe. So something like this should work. Now, I'm going to press F immediately to get access to the feather values. And I'm going to start with a value of five pixels just so you can get a sense how it looks, I'm going to click away, and we can see that we are nicely covering this…

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