Adobe announced CS5 a few weeks ago, with new features being added to After Effects. On the After Effects section on Adobe’s site it list the main new features.
One of the main features being added is the Roto Brush. On the example video they give of the Roto Brush it shows a man being taken out of a background. Just a simple drag of a brush on the object and it removed the background.
The problem I have with the Roto Brush: It sound to good too be true, I can’t believe it will work. If the feature does work, does it mean you wouldn’t have to use a greenscreen anymore?
It works in the example Adobe show very well, but will it work for a user?
Tell me what you think of the feature and whether you think it will work by commenting below?
If it works, then brilliant, the geeks at Adobe did very well. Its a feature you wouldn’t think would ever be possible and I would love it to work reliably. It will save a lot of time for us people doing visual effects.
No one is claiming that Roto Brush will do everything perfectly. It will, however, greatly reduce the amount of time that you’ll spend separating a foreground from its background. It may get you 90% of the way there, but there will still be that 10% that you’ll have to do manually.
No, this doesn’t remove the benefit of shooting against a color screen. Color keying is still a great way to get an alpha channel with almost (almost but not quite) zero work in post. Roto Brush is for those times when you didn’t have a green screen, and conventional rotoscoping would just be too tedious to be practical.
(It’s also excellent for garbage mattes for greenscreen work.)
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3bf812c123007fb8513559df126b537c840-8000.html