After Effects Content Aware Fill - Fixing shots through compositing.
In this video we remove a GoPro shadow from a shot using Content Aware fill and finish by painting with the cloning tool. This is for the newest versions of After Effects. Link to footage at bottom.
00:00 - Introduction.
01:06 - Create Composition.
01:49 - Content Aware Fill Panel.
02:47 - Page Up & Page Down Frame Forward Backward.
03:40 - Mask Out Go Pro.
04:36 - M is the Shortcut for Mask.
05:24 - Mask on LAYER. Not in composition view. Turn “render” off.
07:50 - Start a Keyframe on the Mask!! Important.
09:01 - SHIFT Page Up and Down = 10 frames at a time.
10:16 - Masking techniques. Alt or double click mask etc.
11:12 - Hold down SHIFT to move 10 pixels.
12:01 - Refine the mask. Check in between Keyframes.
14:22 - Make sure you are Subtracting Mask. Has to be for Content Aware to work.
14:56 - Example of how we would start without Content Aware.
17:28 - Push the button! Content Aware Fill.
19:03 - Try Surface Fill.
19:17 - Surface Fill Fail!
19:51 - Try Edge Blend.
20:54 - Try combining Fill Layers?
21:16 - Alt Square Brackets. Trims footage in timeline.
22:12 - Try creating a Reference Frame. Photoshop.
22:43 - Create Clean Frame in Photoshop. Cloning.
25:11 - Save and back to After Effects.
25:26 - Looking good. Almost there.
26:35 - Let’s try PAINTING! Bonus tutorial.
27:19 - Precompose layers. One layer to paint on.
28:14 - Clone Stamp.
28:41 - Clone and Paint explained. Constant vs Single frame. Brush size etc.
29:35 - Paint on Layer. Not composition.
30:53 - Let’s start painting!
32:10 - I paint all the problem frames. Skip or stay.
35:10 - Finished Paint. How did it go?
36:26 - Might as well add a color correction while I’m at it.
37:13 - Final pontification.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/158Io...