Wire Removal with Moving Camera

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tpearce2

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Hi Guys,

I'm working on this movie for a project and was really hoping for some VFX advice. It would really help me out.

We have this one shot (you can see in the video below) where the camera is tracking from left to right and an actor gets pulled with a rope out of the scene. Now we didn't have a track for the camera so it was handheld.

I tried to do the same path for a clean plate, but it looks slightly different perspective wise (maybe a step closer).

Anyways, so I am trying to remove the rope from the shot. If you'd like you can take a loot at the video of the 2 shots.
http://www.vimeo.com/29628208

What would be your plan of action to do this?

I've tried to line up some of the clean plate footage by eye frame by frame but when it's played back it kinda jumps around and is noticeable.

I would greatly appreciate some wisdom and approaches to take.

Tools I have are After Effects, Mocha, Photoshop

Thanks guys,
Tyler
 
Found a solution!

I tried to make a single clean plate of one from and track that in, but because of the drastic camera movement there was a lot of parallax which made it noticeable.

Someone mentioned to try out Mocha Pro's Remove tool. This let me track the background, and make a matte of the rope, and it found bits of frames where it could pull the background from. It looks fantastic now!
 
If you have AE 5 or 5.5 the Rotobrush would help you do the job. There's is a bit of a learning curve, but it's worth it. There is some rotobrush education to be had at Adobe TV and at Creative Cow.
 
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