From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments
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Cleaning up the footage
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments
Cleaning up the footage
- [Instructor] This tutorial's going to be another cleanup footage tutorial, but it's going to be a little bit different than what we've done before. Let's go ahead and just in the project panel, double-click to import. Go to the Video folder, inside the Media folder, inside the Exercise Files, and get the aerial footage here. And I'm going to go ahead and open that up. So that's imported into our project. Drag that to the new composition icon, right here. And we could use our middle mouse wheel to zoom in and out, and hold down the button to get a hand and move that around. And what we're going to do, is we're going to get rid of Heller, the guy standing right here, and also his shadow, which is an important thing to get rid of as well. But we're going to use a different method. I realize that we had several tutorials earlier on tracking and cloning and a bunch of different ways to remove stuff, and I'm going to show you yet one more way that's actually going to be really easy for…
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Creating a plan and shooting the footage4m 46s
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Making the campfire elements8m 37s
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Creating glowing embers9m 38s
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Cleaning up the footage6m 37s
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Combining the elements, part 1: Assembling7m 5s
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Combining the elements, part 2: Compositing11m 22s
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Making the smoke trail in Trapcode Particular14m 43s
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Changing the time of day11m 58s
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