see-thru skirt

[George M]

Hi,
So...I was shooting a funeral scene...it was outdoors and overcast (no backlight). Actually didn't light at all, was going to use flexfill but too cloudy. I only monitored with the camera LED. So looking at the footage today, I have a silhouette of the grieving mother's thighs! There are 4 other ladies in the frame and no problem with them. It was a black conservative skirt, didn't look sheer.

How do I fix? I have studio 2 with motion/color, etc. do not have after effects.

Thanks-george

[NoahK]

You could mess with contrast a lot- but it's hard to say without seeing the shot. Might be a reshoot or cut around it... Next time bring a production monitor. :)

Noah

[DJDecay]

Its just adding black depending on the length of the shot, what you could do, is use two layers in Motion of the same material, and motion track the portion where it looks sheer, and then super-impose the same image, only shifter over by one pixel with blur, at 50% transparency to the original. This way you're not stuck painting every frame or rotoscoping. But her skirt in the second layer will need an oval transparency mask with motion detection track applied, this way it will follow the camera.

So you're superimposing a single pixel shifted, dark skirt in an oval, over the original shot. - This like photoshop layers only with moving footage of the same material twice.
Read the article on how to blur unwanted faces in motion (like they do on COPS) its the same technique only with a modification. Should look 100% organic.

[George M]

DJ--do you have a link to the article you spoke of? I've seen ones on doing it straight with fcp, but i couldn't get it to work. kept messing with opacity but it either looked blurred or total black that was way in frount of the dress (no blend)

[DJDecay]

Video Tutorial
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-blur-faces-to-protect-identities-in-motion-262754/

This one is missing motion->analyze which auto-create an x/y key frame track for a moving object.

Then you create a matte against skirt 2.0, if there is anything that moves past it, put that into layer 3

So first layer is orignal marterial
2nd layer skirt shifted over, enough to have the fabric mesh turn non-transparent.
3d layer, anything that goes in-front of your subject (like an extra doing a cross.) cloned from layer 1.