From the course: Video Post Production Weekly

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Quick tip under two minutes: Three compositing tricks

Quick tip under two minutes: Three compositing tricks

From the course: Video Post Production Weekly

Quick tip under two minutes: Three compositing tricks

- [Instructor] Here are three compositing tricks which will make your result more convincing and coherent. We are looking at one shot, number 21 to be specific, from a video clip for Seasonal Beast's "I Can Make You Disappear," made by Eyal B. You can watch it if you want on YouTube after this tutorial is over. So tip number one relates to rotoscoping. If you're using the roto brush and refine edge tool in After Effects, and you definitely should because the new version is great, but you can help it to look even better by enabling both motion blur and decontamination. Remember to open the settings and tick the extend where smooth, as well as increase the radius by three pixels or more depending on your footage to make it look even more convincing. I also recommend that you freeze the roto brush propagation if you're happy from it. This will bake the results to the project and give you a much more expected result in the…

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