I’m in the process of beta testing a new matchbox I’ve been making that I think is showing some serious promise in regards to a different methodology towards edge extension to fix problematic bright and dark edges as well as the persistent issue of seeing through to the original BG of a comp in very motion blurred areas.
I was hoping that some folks might have some footage to help me out with some tests? The tests I’ve been doing are on footage that I can’t share. But if anyone has any footage like this, I’d love to see how it does. If you have good roto and keys for this stuff I would need that too in order for it to work (I can pull a good enough key come to think of it, but if it requires roto, I’d need what you’ve got!):
-Overly bright screens of all sorts with motion blur or defocused elements in the FG
-Dark screens that needed bright inserts (again with motion blur or defocused elements over top)
-Footage that needed roto-scoping in order to go over a DMP or whatever is behind it (so basically, just the footage, BG and roto you used for a shot that had problematic edges because of bleed from the original BG)
So basically, just shots you had that were really problematic in terms of edges (bright fringe, dark fringe, or BG bleed from rotoscoped FG). Again, I can pull keys, but I aint gonna spend hours roto-ing thumbs, so if you’d like to share, send me your roto too!
Thanks all, probably overly-excited about this tool but its got potential and I’m looking forward to sharing with everybody!
Note that’s not footage-footage, it’s a few colored frames that are impossible to key well with the current toolset, but those colors come from real footage that I had to try and key.
@andy_dill So still some odd artifacting here and there, this is a strange edge case(!) but helpful, but here’s what I was able to get with my adaptive suppression rig for intial fill build and then my new matchbox for edge fixes:
Right now these are two separate processes, the edge fix matchbox I’m working on has a broad use set for all things fringe-y. But my next project is building my adaptive suppression into a matchbox and incorporating this edge fix tool as a post-processing option pulldown within the same matchbox.
If anyone else has some plates for me to try please do send!! Like I said, especially stuff with bright screens where roto was necessary. My own particular joy has been seeing it work in my own tests on replacing screens that previously had bright moving images in them and replacing them with dark inserts and using the edge fix tool to bring stuff fairly painlessly over the top in terms of bleed and edge integration.
Still refining a bit, but also building my adaptive supression rig into a matchbox that will include this same edge extension tool within that matchbox to hopefully be able to just be done with fringe-ing when building additive key/ adaptive suppress fills
