One important thing to remember is this is a Tripod Shot! Make sure everything is steady as possible! Capture Card works a lot easier also. Another tip when your filming your friend you don't want him hitting your body/or any icons that would be on that bottom left hand corner. You will notice in the Before & After Video how the skater rides between both.

(Photobucket is down at the moment download the picture I photoshopped)
http://i29.tinypic.com/2egb504.jpg

For people that don't use after effects Detailed Video for the Tripod Effect
http://www.vimeo.com/666304

Before & After Final Video of the Tripod shot
http://www.vimeo.com/658668

I hope people will reply if this tutorial helps them or not.

The picture was from an actual flick it guide Anyways if this helps people I could make some more

Awesome, I had the "cloning" part down but couldn't figure out how to layer it through the entire clip. thanks.




p.s. nice mac.

thanx heh did you watch the video or check the picture? I only made the video for people that are new to AFX.

Haven't tried it yet but man! thanks for the trouble. Much much appreciated!

I watched the vid because I didn't know what to do after cloning. All pretty simple after watching that.

Also, is that garage band in your dock?

yea

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That was awesome! Thanks for this.

yeah nice tut i could use it for this new lil secret i just found out i'll put something up later on this week to show ya but it is supper sick

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very good tutorial. i'm sure alot of people will appreciate it!

Your welcome guys and yea I hope people use it

thats pretty much what i do... i use a little more cut & paste in photoshop instead of massive use of the clone tool to keep things a little less muddy.

also if you add some feather to your masks in after effects, you can eliminate any sharp lines if theres a change in color across the time of the clip (something i've run into in a couple instances)... although in your example it looks really clean.

nice job man.

thanx adam yea i know using a lot of clone stamp sometimes makes it ugly. I did add some feather, and a box blur to get rid of any sharp lines but yea hubba hideout was pretty much the only hard challenge.

PS the new thing is adding textures on spots I added grass on one didnt come out too bad..

maybe some lava?

I know I said this in another thread but between in n out and adam, you guys should try and reverse the effect....put "somebody real" in San Van. I know if you use the lasso tool and soften the edges you can isolate a single object out of a pic. Why can't you do that with vids? I know it would be some work but seeing a real life person skating in SV would be crazy!