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Creating multiple spans

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It is indeed about a good 20 minutes later, and I'm going to set my Roto Brush effect and type PP and show you that I've made 173 strokes total to define from my Base Frame back to time zero (x0). So I don't want you to be under any illusions that this is a automated process. Roto Brush greatly reduces the amount of work you need to do but you still need to do some work. Saving the Propagation parameters early on will help reduce that amount of work. And now as I drag my time indicator, through my timeline, you can see I have set up a propagation boundary for all these frames. Tricky areas was in here where his little finger is moving inside the shadows of his hand, a little gap here, managing the gap here between the thumb, the laptop and the shirt sleeve but I worked my way through all those frames. Now let's go back to the Base Frame and think about propagating forward in time. I want to see how far this Base Frame provides good information going forward making corrective strokes…

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