Then, adjust the Area Position settings so that the Selection Rectangle fully encloses the car. (You could put it just before the car appears, but, then, you wouldn’t be able to see the car to position the effect…) Position the Timeline playhead just after the car (object) appears in the frame. Set the Mode to Setup Region and the Area Selection to either Oval or Rectangle, whichever most closely resembles the shape you want to remove. (This needs to match the clip in the Timeline.) Open the Inspector ( Cmd+4), click inside the Source Layer and select the same clip in the Browser that you just edited into the Timeline. Instantly, you see a message displayed on the clip that this effect needs more information before it will work. (Yes, that is one of the more, um, off-beat icons for an effect that I’ve ever seen.)

Here’s how it works.Įdit the clip into your project that contains the object you want to remove.Īpply the BCC Motion Key effect from the Effects Browser to the clip.

The solution is an absolutely stunning effect from Boris FX called BCC Motion Key. And it really fits into the emotion of their parting. We could kill the shot, but, except for the car, the rest of the shot is perfect. We could zoom in, but that would cost us the majesty of the wide shot. After flogging the production assistant that foolishly allowed this to happen, we are still left with the conundrum of how to get rid of the stupid car. Instead, it is a story about the separation of two lovers in 1900 as he heads out to seek his fortune and their sad parting at the train station.ĮXCEPT, in the middle of this romantic period piece, some idiot drives a modern car into your shot. Imagine that this scene, shot by Michael Powles at BVE 2014 in London earlier this year, isn’t REALLY about a modern train. However, it is also available in what Boris FX calls the “Continuum Complete Image Restoration Unit,” which is a less-expensive subset containing just the image restoration tools.Ĭontinuum Complete Image Restoration Unit: $299 The BCC Motion Key effect is one of the effects in Continuum. So we agreed I’d cover their 3D Text Extrusion generator and Image Restoration effects. With over 230 effects, backgrounds and transitions in the package, there was no way to cover all of it in an hour.

Adobe Premiere and After Effects CC, CS6, CS5.5Įarlier this week, the folks at Boris FX asked me to host a webinar looking at a few of the effects inside the latest release of Boris Continuum Complete 9.

This means that whatever you are using for editing, you can achieve the same results with your system. NOTE: Although I demo this effect using FCP X, BCC is fully compatible with the following software. If you have ever needed to remove an unwanted object from a video clip, the Motion Key effect in Boris Continuum Complete 9 (BCC) will do the trick with simply stunning results.

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