Comments on: Mundine V Soliman

By: Kes Akalaonu

Kes Akalaonu — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:16:46 +0000

My question is how did use the masks to fill in the holes for your luma mattes

By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:16:16 +0000

Hi Kes, did you have a specific question? Best wishes, John.

By: Kes Akalaonu

Kes Akalaonu — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:50:03 +0000

Hey John,

Awesome promo. I’m trying to perform the technique you mentioned but I’m still trying to figure it out. Anymore tips to offer?

By: RobBach

RobBach — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:37:43 +0000

great work John!.. thanks for posting..very generous of you to share your method.

By: Josh Johnson

Josh Johnson — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:14:58 +0000

Hey John maybe this was already answered but how did make it look like the punches etc react to the light? Is that where starglow came into play? Like the parts where the lights effect the boxers it looks very cool seemed you did it in the hulk promo too.

thanks
Josh

By: Daniel Huisman

Daniel Huisman — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:35:41 +0000

Great use of starglow, subtle and clever. Really looked good on those punches!

By: JD

JD — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:53:08 +0000

Sorry I forgot to add that the masks I used to “fill” the holes were filled with white using the Fill effect. JD

By: JCrespo

JCrespo — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:04:34 +0000

How did you use multiple masks with a track matte applied to the layer? I tried it and I dont find way to make it “fills” the holes?

By: JD

JD — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:11:54 +0000

I keyed the footage using a combination of luma mattes and rotoscoping. To create the luma matte I duplicated the footage, applied the Shift Channels (to make it greyscale) and Levels (to crush the black and whites) effects. This made a pretty good matte but I still had to fill in some holes using hold-out masks. For some of the stationary shots I used more masks because I wanted the boxer to be clearly in front of the light. This wasn't so important for other shots where the boxers were moving quickly - in these cases it looked better if part of the boxer was in front and part behind, that way they looked as if they were "in" the light beams. The color grade was created using Stu Maschwitz's Rebel CC preset. You can grab it here.

By: JCrespo1984

JCrespo1984 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:21:38 +0000

How did you key this footage?

By: kamal98

kamal98 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:03:47 +0000

i love it is simple but effective

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:49:18 +0000

Hello John.

Nice job. Like all of yours. I like the most how you use starglow.

It would be great if you should post a .ffx for color correction you made for boxers.

Thanx.

Jacob