More famously, rotoscoping has been used in all of the “Star Wars” movies to create their iconic lightsabers. To give an idea of the amount of work that goes into a roto-heavy production, the “Take on Me” video involved rotoscoping 3,000 frames of live action video, and it took more than 16 weeks. The boiling in A-Ha’s video was intentional, but careless rotoscoping can lead to this happening without intent. Famous examples are The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” video and A-Ha’s “Take on Me.” Screen grab of A-Ha’s music video Take On MeThe shaky lines in “Take on Me” are the result of what is called “boil” or “jitter,” which is caused when an image isn’t traced consistently from frame to frame. And it does that every single time I move on the timeline, no matter what direction.Over the years rotoscoping has been in constant use, not only on television and in movies, but also in music videos. Once I move back in the timeline where the frames were already calculated (And you get that little green line right where you set the duration of the master keyframes) it deletes the line and recalculates every single frame. Normally you can go back on the calculated frames between these two points and check if it looks out of bounds earlier to adjust the strokes. I start with the first frame, use the brush to cover everything I need. Like, nothing changed except it's a new project now.Īlso I don't think you quite understand the problem, it "latches" onto the footage just fine. So there is no way it is the fault of the footage itself. So I opened a new project with the SAME files, did exactly what I always do and now it doesn't work. So now I tried the latest project where I used rotobrush. Then the rotobrushing work begins and where the trouble now starts. Duplicate it, get into layer view, start the rotobrush on the first frame, go into the RB settings and tick Alternate Colors and set it to Current Edges. Start the project, import the file, start the composition. Not just the same, 100% exactly the same. Settings are all the same for the other dozens of files where it worked. Hardware is the same, footage is the same, settings of RB are the same.īut here it goes: I use Handbrake to get an m4v. I get that you need that just in general, but in this case I performed the exact same steps as I always did and it worked like that for well over a year. I would very much appreciate some help here, I use the feature frequently and couldn't live without it at this point.
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Not to mention that this means I will not be able to go back and put the refined edge on it!Įssentially it's unusable now and I have no idea how to fix this. So I decided to start and wait until it's done and then just freeze it in the hopes that it does the job somewhat decently without me interrupting.Īnd when I tried to freeze it recalculated everything AGAIN! But the second I stop and try to correct anything it recalculates everything. I am able to start from the first frame and just let it's do it's thing until the end.
Started new project, still the same issue.
I restarted AE, my PC, tried 17.0.2 and 17.0.0. It's just that now, every time I move on the timeline it starts calculating the roto from the very beginning. It's short without much movement so I didn't bother making several master frames, just the one. Now I started another project and do the usual.ĭuplicate the layer, go into the layer view, adjust the length of the rotobrush area, start on the first frame with one stroke, go into the propagations and change a few settings there and then I want to start rotobrushing the clip. I did a usual rotobrush just two days ago and everything was fine.