Hasta La Motion!

Ugh, I want to shoot myself right now.

I’m working with scanned 16mm Film, and its grainy as hell. Whats worse is that it was shot in lower light than usual. The actress has brunette hair tightly bound into a braid, but there are small pieces of hair that are sticking out from her head.

Anyone have any suggestions for tackling this? Unfortunately I can’t upload anything, so I’m not expecting any really detailed help, but suggestions would be great.

My current plan of attack has been to generate a core and edge mattes, then using separate keyers for pieces of the hair. But damn, everything is so grainy, I just can’t avoid sizzling edges. I tried degraining the green screen, then comping the foreground back over it and keying that. That got me a little more progress, but not enough.

Primary keyers i’m using are the IBK and Primatte. Lumakeys just aren’t getting the detail I need.

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Hey

Is it possible to render the wireframe view out? Without the lights and cameras visible of course.

I have something like a brick wall and a projection going on to the wall – the bricks arent perfectly lined up (apparently) and im getting lines instead of a smooth surface on some blocks, but actually I wouldnt mind getting the edges and using it to show like grooves.

cheers

Me and my co-worker are having some beers at the office. I just wanted show a speedCurve script I just did. In case you like that speedcurve seen in AE. I’ve made a localParameter which checks the speed of the xPan and then if you add the speedcurve parameter to the curve editor you get a speed curve like in After Effects. Might be useful, might not 🙂

Text1 = Text(1280, 720, 2, "SpeedCurve", "Utopia Regular", 100,
xFontScale/GetDefaultAspect(), 1, width/2, height/2, 0, 2,
2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);
Pan1 = Pan(Text1, Hermite(0,[0,0,0]@1,[243,0,0]@23,[148,90.11,90.11]@42,[462,-94.17,-94.17]@62,[-315,-98.37,-98.37]@75,[-49,96.64,96.64]@100,[0,0,0]@120),
Hermite(0,[0,0,0]@1,[0,0,0]@23,[0,0,0]@42,[0,0,0]@62,[0,0,0]@75,[0,0,0]@100,[0,0,0]@120),
0, 0.5, 0, float speedCurve = ((xPan@@(time+1)) – (xPan@@(time))) *10);

// User Interface settings

SetKey(
"nodeView.Pan1.t", "0",
"nodeView.Pan1.x", "-5075",
"nodeView.Pan1.y", "-6494",
"nodeView.Text1.t", "1",
"nodeView.Text1.tnChannel", "0",
"nodeView.Text1.tnTime", "1",
"nodeView.Text1.tnVisible", "1",
"nodeView.Text1.x", "-5102.82373",
"nodeView.Text1.y", "-6423.714"
);

Cheers!