From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering Content-Aware Fill
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Creating the fill layer for a moving camera - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering Content-Aware Fill
Creating the fill layer for a moving camera
- [Instructor] Now that we have our initial selection, we're just about ready to go forward. My suggestion is switch this to Subtract and then apply a little bit of a feather. This'll help with the blend. If needed, you can turn off the alpha channel by clicking on the transparency grid. And just get a good idea if you have the object, which it looks like we do. Now in the Content Aware Fill dialog, give the alpha a slight expansion to calculate and capture more detail. Don't overdo it, but a small amount between five and 10 usually works well. Tell it to track for the object here, since we're removing a bike rider on the open road. And then track the entire duration. When ready, click Generate fill layer. It's going to analyze the clip, looking at the movement, the color, the tone, and then attempt to generate a new image sequence to fill in the missing pixels. Now that it's done we can press the spacebar and watch…
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