Help naming a specific special effect

topgamer101 · Post by **topgamer101** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:50 pm

There is an effect where you take a character from a scene, extract him/her out and place him/her either on top of another scene or use additional special effects to extract and remove the background and fill it with special effects.

I'll try to find a video that has an example of what I mean, but if anyone could name the effect for me and let me know if a certain program is required to do it that would be great. Thanks for any help.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:55 pm

Rotoscoping or Masking

can be done in Sony Vegas, After Effects or with the help of Photoshop

its essentially frame by frame editing.

topgamer101 · Post by **topgamer101** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:57 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:Rotoscoping or Masking

can be done in Sony Vegas, After Effects or with the help of Photoshop

its essentially frame by frame editing.

ok, so the frame by frame is unavoidable. Which method would you suggest between photoshop and after effects? I was thinking of getting after effects sometime this year actually.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:06 pm

would you rather do the masking in your program? or would you rather import a mass of image files?

topgamer101 · Post by **topgamer101** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:10 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:would you rather do the masking in your program? or would you rather import a mass of image files?

lol. Alright, time to get some money together. Thank you for the help.