That glorious moment when you finish a hard mask

[Shui]

I only use Masks to achieve a certain thing and I'm only happy about it if it turns out how I wanted it to be.
I've never used rotobrush, I've heard it sucks for anime anyways.

You underestimate my power.

Show me. Record yourself masking or make a tutorial

[Sephirothskr]

I only use Masks to achieve a certain thing and I'm only happy about it if it turns out how I wanted it to be.
I've never used rotobrush, I've heard it sucks for anime anyways.

You underestimate my power.

Show me. Record yourself masking or make a tutorial

Well as I said shui, I did the 90 frame haruhi mask with it. It becomes very easy to use if you set parameters to "auto trace edges like I did them" or whatever. Then you manually take your brush and decrease size and you fix the edges and holes within hair etc. I've actually had it perfectly trace my masks before leaving me with 0 work to do. It also auto traces redundant frames.

[dragontamer5788]

What about the glorious moment when you finish a hard mask and noticed that a wipe looks better?

[Chiikaboom]

finished three seconds worth of haruhi dancing that was hell on earth to do.

crawling in my skin these wounds they will not heal

[Shin-AMV]

I've never found masking hard, just incredibly tedious.

[Sephirothskr]

finished three seconds worth of haruhi dancing that was hell on earth to do.

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crawling in my skin these wounds they will not heal

Ah you mask using pictures. I export mine as a video with transparent background. But omfg that looks terrible.

[8bitcritr]

I've only done masks in Premiere with the track matte keying effect. I know there's better ways out there but I'm really clueless... I even have after effects but I suck in after effects and working entirely in premiere feels so much easier. How ignorant am I about this? someone please put me on blast and teach me something useful

[Castor Troy]

Mine was 90 frames. NINTEY. FRAMES. Luckily, rotobrush speeds up the process just a bit.

My final video, Naruto Ball Z Shippuden was at least 1100+ frames of masking.

I use the rotobrush now to mask things for my webshow and it's a godsend.

[CrackTheSky]

I've only done masks in Premiere with the track matte keying effect. I know there's better ways out there but I'm really clueless... I even have after effects but I suck in after effects and working entirely in premiere feels so much easier. How ignorant am I about this? someone please put me on blast and teach me something useful

The way most people do it is to use the pen tool and go frame by frame, cutting out whatever needs to be masked. Some crazies (like Chii) use Photoshop to make lots of individual image files with an alpha channel and then just layer those over the video, one after the other. (Actually, I kid, the Photoshop way is fine, especially since I know that Chii uses Vegas and IMO Vegas is more of a pain to work with when it comes to masking compared to Adobe products).

[Sephirothskr]

I used to use pen tool but the rotobrush is just so much more efficient at it