From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments
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Finding or making a clean plate
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments
Finding or making a clean plate
- [Instructor] In the last tutorial, we talked about what a clean plate is and in this tutorial, we're going to look at how to make one. Now, again, a clean plate is just the background with nothing else on it. And if you're on set and you have a good visual effects supervisor, which we'll talk about later on in this course, they should be taking ones. They should be taking plates, photos on set so you can use for a place you don't have to make one. And we weren't planning on this being a visual effects shot, so we didn't take those photos on set. Now, oftentimes, if you're clever, you can find a plate by going through the footage. So if we just look at the clip, maybe we got this from the editor and we see the whole shot from here in the start and she starts walking, and then at the end of the shot, she starts running away. There's really not too much to use here. But if we go back to the source footage, and I'm just going to go here, in the Project Panel. Open up the footage folder,…
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