Joe Taylor Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I have a special F/X shot that I need to complete for a film I worked on recently. This is the shot: Foreground shot is a fir tree, filmed at night and lit with tungsten side lighting. Background shot is star-filled sky with Orion. I need to matte the star shot over the darkness of the fir tree shot. The star shot is actually four time-frames of slightly different exposures to give the stars a bit of flicker. I am working with FCP Studio Pro. I am told Motion might work well for the composite. Any suggestions or advice is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Walter Graff Posted February 2, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted February 2, 2009 Create a hi con matte of the tree vs the sky in photoshop. Insert your background into black or white of the matte. Done. Make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Walter Graff Posted February 2, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted February 2, 2009 Create a hi con matte of the tree vs the sky in photoshop. Insert your background into black or white of the matte. Done. Make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Taylor Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Yes, this makes sense if I was compositing a still photograph, but I am working with moving images here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fritzshall Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 You can find about a zillion tutorials for how to do keying and rotoscoping in After Effects or other programs all over the internet. Also, it's generally a good idea to have planned this sort of thing out beforehand and to know how you're going to do it before you shoot it and make your movie dependent on a shot that you may not know how to accomplish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Taylor Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 You can find about a zillion tutorials for how to do keying and rotoscoping in After Effects or other programs all over the internet. Also, it's generally a good idea to have planned this sort of thing out beforehand and to know how you're going to do it before you shoot it and make your movie dependent on a shot that you may not know how to accomplish. If everybody went to Google to get all the answers to life, then seeking advice @ Cinematography.com from friendly professionals like yourself would seem so pointless. So relax. The Cardinals still played a good game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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