Recently I made a video about 3 twin brothers - sitting closely next to each other - all played by 1 single actor.
Because of the very bad light conditions and an impossible background (curtains before a sunlit window) - and the fact that the brothers overlapped each other - I could not chromakey or separate the actor(s) - but had to do some heavy bezier-mask-work - especially as the actor(s) moved quite a bit.
Yesterday evening - making a presentation in neighboring video-makers club - they all were agreed that I should not have done it by a couple of weeks of tedious, keyframing Bezier masking - but claimed that there was software able to keep a once defined mask closely to the actors body, arms, cap etc. when he moved and turned.
Some claimed that After Effects was the perfect choice for this task and would do it in minutes.
Today I have been looking around to find this whizz-bang-auto-rotoscoping software - but found nothing that could have done my work (at a reasonable cost for an amateur, that is).
Now: Have you got any ideas :- )) ??
Because of the very bad light conditions and an impossible background (curtains before a sunlit window) - and the fact that the brothers overlapped each other - I could not chromakey or separate the actor(s) - but had to do some heavy bezier-mask-work - especially as the actor(s) moved quite a bit.
Yesterday evening - making a presentation in neighboring video-makers club - they all were agreed that I should not have done it by a couple of weeks of tedious, keyframing Bezier masking - but claimed that there was software able to keep a once defined mask closely to the actors body, arms, cap etc. when he moved and turned.
Some claimed that After Effects was the perfect choice for this task and would do it in minutes.
Today I have been looking around to find this whizz-bang-auto-rotoscoping software - but found nothing that could have done my work (at a reasonable cost for an amateur, that is).
Now: Have you got any ideas :- )) ??