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Jack Daniel Stanley

Jack Daniel Stanley

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Don't leave a big pile of dolly track right smack in the middle of a master shot
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and you won't have to spend half your life figuring out how to matte it out!
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LOL, -- it was only my first short, though
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I feel your pain.
The best compositing work I've ever done goes without notice, because it was spent matting gear out of shots.
:)
 
OLBoy said:
How did you Matte it out ?
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I made a blank slug clip above the other clip in the timeline and used an eight point garbage matte.

I got away with a lot because it was basically black in that part f the frame.

I tried to color them out frame by frame in photoshop but that sucked cuz it looked like - well hand drawn animation and you'd see outline of the the black blob constantly sort of swirling over there.
 
Good luck -- though like I said I was very lucky because it was all black over there -- hardly a fixall solution that I have.

Sounds like Luis is the pro at this.

(just rememebered, not only my 1st short, but first shot we did on my first short)
 
If I were a pro at all I wouldn't be matting crap out of my shots.
:)

Not sure if being a pro at this is actually a compliment though...hmmm.
Just be glad it was a static shot.
 
Luis Caffesse said:
If I were a pro at all I wouldn't be matting crap out of my shots.
:)

Not sure if being a pro at this is actually a compliment though...hmmm.
Just be glad it was a static shot.
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Yeah I thought that could've been taken in a backhanded way -- didn't mean it that way at all.

But the shot wasn't static -- slight crane effect! Maybe I'll get a clip up here in a second.
 
I kind of like the shot with the tracks better. It says, "Look at me, I'm human, I'm vulnerable, I make mistakes." I can relate to that film. As is, the matte version is too perfect. Throw a boom mic into the shot and then I'd pay to go see it. :)
 
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