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alright, i need special help with learning how to copy and paste people's heads on top of another and getting it in the right spot. this probably cant be done but im just wondering if it can be done. so can it? and how please
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scabs and scars producer, co-director
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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Do you want it to look like the heads belong there (ie, fool people), or do you mind if it looks kind of hokey and cartoony--ie, stylized? If the latter, FC could do it by simple compositing, and some keyframed movement of the composited head to match the body. If you want it to look more real, using AfterEffects' motion tracker would be better, or a third-party plug in that does more sophisticated motion tracking...plus alot of finessed blurs and color matching.
I don't have a ton of experience with compositing, these are just my best guesses...
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yea basically cartoonish would be fine, so can you explain basically where to go and what to do for me?
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scabs and scars producer, co-director
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If you've got Final Cut Pro, it should have come with some version of Commotion. Read up on "Rotoscoping" or "Matting," depending on your specific usage.
If you have a head from someone else and you want to place that head and only that head on someone else's body, you'll need to rotoscope. Essentially what you're doing is creating a chalk line around their head. You then adjust this outline as your source footage progresses (Commotion helps with this, of course) to maintain the outline. What you have then is just the head and an alpha channel and you simply throw the other person in the background to match.
Matting is good if you just need to cut off their body, i.e. if the background behind their head requires no retooling. Just add a "garbage matte," basically a shape which makes whatever it's covering transparent over their body so when the head is composited over someone else's body, everything but the stuff covered by the garbage matte is visible.
Hopefully this helps. Check your local bookstore, www.dv.com archives, or Commotion or After Effects manuals or guidebooks for more in-depth info.
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can i delete the files in final cut pro documents or any of the files? cause i have this movie that is 30 min long and there are like 6.60gb on hd and i still can convert it to quicktime. should i do something like deleting them or can i export it to quicktime but compress it but get good quality?
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