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Have you tired to make a master clean plate and assemble picture information that is available from the other 443 frames? If an object is completely cover up by an actor you could use the clone brush and give it a middle of the road object… You would have to roto out all the actors to achieve this master plate though. Then fill in there missing information on the frame with the cloned back ground information… The trick will be to find a frame that has the video information your looking for to clone, and then assemble it. You would have to roto out all of the actors on every frame though to re-supplement them on top of the clean frame plate.
Another trick I used for the other saber shots, was the old “CC wire removal tool” This actually warped the original saber and inverted it to make it a lot thinner. I was then able to roto the new saber with great results. This allowed me to recreate a new light saber effect without it looking too thick. The only trade off is that sometimes if will give a warping effect on the background, which can be minimized thru the settings at a key frame level. But it is a well worth trade off.
Below is a sample
http://i.imgur.com/PoUrPZR.jpg
It’s a lot of work I know, that’s why I don’t have the time to do it… :{
Yeah, time is really an issue. I’ll be trying your idea next week, this weekend i have to make a huge download.
General consensus seems to be that the speeder effect shot is ready. Thanks!
I’ll send you monday 😃