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CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

Lesson 31 from: Adobe After Effects Fundamentals

Philip Ebiner

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

Lesson 31 from: Adobe After Effects Fundamentals

Philip Ebiner

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31. CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

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Class Trailer

Chapter 1: Introduction

1

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

06:22

Chapter 2: After Effects Basics

2

Understand the After Effects Workspace

05:39
3

Starting a New Composition

08:15
4

CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage

01:55
5

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

05:08
6

Using the Basic After Effects Tools

10:20
7

Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors

03:04
8

Working in the Timeline

10:59
9

Layer Properties

08:57
10

Quiz: After Effects Basics

Chapter 3: Animating with Keyframes

11

Animating in After Effects

07:35
12

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

05:17
13

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

04:21
14

Using the Graph Editor

05:32
15

Challenge - Bouncing Ball

01:01
16

Solution - Bouncing Ball

13:00
17

Quiz: Animating with Keyframes

Chapter 4: Shapes and Solid Layers

18

Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects

07:07
19

Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths

06:24
20

Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients

03:44
21

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

05:54
22

Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers

Chapter 5: Important After Effects Skills

23

Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear

08:37
24

Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers

05:34
25

Easily Reverse Complicated Animations

02:14
26

Playing with Time

05:54
27

Blend Modes

06:05
28

Stabilize Shaky Footage

04:04
29

CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts

00:46
30

CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time

03:36
31

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

03:55
32

CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates

08:37
33

Quiz: Important After Effects Skills

Chapter 6: Motion Graphics Projects

34

Intro to Motion Graphics Projects

00:53
35

Clean Lower Third

09:22
36

Logo Reveal Animation Bumper

13:25
37

Colorful Transition

16:59
38

Text with Mask Path Animation

10:05
39

Text Bubble Animation

13:39
40

Weather App 1

16:41
41

Weather App 2

08:21
42

Weather App 3

06:59
43

Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects

Chapter 7: Flat Animation Challenge

44

Flat Animation Challenge

02:47
45

Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene

01:23
46

Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

15:02

Chapter 8: Flat Animation Challenge

47

Removing Green Screen Background

06:46
48

Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground

07:55
49

Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool

06:26
50

Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

06:07
51

Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge

Chapter 9: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

52

Intro to 3D

10:04
53

Swinging 3D Text Animation

12:11
54

Build Out Your 3D Composition

05:47
55

Animating Our 3D Scene

07:38
56

Create Stars in After Effects

05:11
57

Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

Chapter 10: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

58

Using the Rotoscope Tool

06:55
59

Cleaning Up Your Edges

07:21
60

Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

07:33
61

Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

Chapter 11: Rotoscoping

62

Easy Screen Replacement with Masks

09:56
63

Replacing a Screen Version 2

13:49
64

Screen Replacement with Mocha

07:13
65

CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin

05:08
66

Quiz: Rotoscoping

Chapter 12: Screen Replacements

67

Using the Puppet Pin Tool

04:33
68

Animating Your Puppet Pins

03:04
69

Animated Blinking Eyes

08:21
70

Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

07:10
71

CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool

02:08
72

Quiz: Screen Replacements

Chapter 13: Puppet Tool Animations

73

Applying Text Animation Presets

05:59
74

Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn

10:05
75

Radial and Linear Wipes

03:20
76

Color Correction in After Effects

03:33
77

CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments

03:25
78

Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations

Chapter 14: Motion Tracking

79

Motion Tracking Basics

09:51
80

Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip

06:21
81

Tracking Rotation and Scale

11:33
82

Adding Details to Our Text

04:04
83

Quiz: Motion Tracking

Chapter 15: Character Animations

84

Intro to Character Animations

01:31
85

Design Your Character

14:32
86

Rigging Your Character

02:50
87

Animating Our Character

09:55
88

Adding the Animated Background

09:12
89

Adding Details to Character Movement

06:46
90

Adding the Paper Cut Out Look

05:29
91

Quiz: Character Animations

Chapter 16: Exporting from After Effects

92

Exporting an H264 File from After Effects

07:03
93

Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background

04:03
94

Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder

04:40
95

CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder

02:14
96

Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017

07:03

Chapter 17: After Effects Workflow & Tips

97

Audio Tips for After Effects

02:19
98

Working with Premiere Pro

05:54
99

Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips

Chapter 18: Expressions

100

Expressions Basics

07:24
101

Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions

17:35
102

Quiz: Expressions

Chapter 19: Conclusion

103

Conclusion

00:44

Final Quiz

104

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

imagine if you could automatically make an object disappear from your video frame. Now this is semi easy to do with a still image but in video it is still quite difficult until now, after effects has released the content aware fill effect. This is basically a way of removing objects from a video. Crazy. Right? So to do this, go up to window and make sure you have your content aware window open or panel. So it might be over here on the right hand side. Now I have this clip of this hot air balloon that is moving behind this mountain which is actually even tougher than if the hot air balloon was just in the blue sky. But basically what we're going to do is mask around our object and let after effects do the rest. So to do that you can create a mask with the pen tool or really any shape tool that you want. I'm going to use the ellipse tool to create a mask, make sure I'm selecting our video layer around our hot air balloon. Now you will see that it has selected the inside of our masks. Wha...

t we want to do is go to our our mask that was created under this video later layer. And click subtract, Wow It's Tongue Twister for this one. For some reason. Now the difference one extra step you're going to have to do with this video or if you have a video of a moving object is you're going to have to actually animate the mask so that it moves with the object. You can see that over here in the second half of the video, the balloon is moving outside of the mask. So to do that, just drop down your mask properties, click the key frame stopwatch button at the beginning of your sequence for the mass path. And then since this is pretty simple motion, I'm just going to go all the way to the end and then I can literally use the keyboard up down right left arrows to move this mask over to the right hand side and just check, make sure that our hot air balloon isn't popping peeking from behind this at all. The next thing we do is go to our content aware window. There are a couple of options you have to pay attention to and you might have to adjust these later on to see, make it work a little bit better. One is the alpha expansion, I increase this to 10. This is basically going to do like a little bit of feathering along the edges and this helps blend in the content aware fill that it's creating. It's basically looking at what's around the edges of this mask and it's going to fill in the edges with whatever it kind of recreates based off of that. And having this down to zero. Doesn't always look that good because the edge can be a little bit too fine and it looks, you can actually see the edge of the mask later on. So I increase that to 10. There are a few different film methods that you might want to play around with depending on what your object is. But once you have this set and for range, you want to check out work area if you have a smaller work area like so or just the entire duration of your work area or your video composition and then you just click generate Phil Now this is gonna take a while for it to analyze. You can see it's that 1%, of course, depending on how fast your computer is, how big of a mask you have, how much movement it has, how detailed it is. It's going to take awhile but just let this go and then we'll show you how it works. All right. And now you can see after it's been processed that the hot air balloon has disappeared. You can play with things like the alpha expansion and film method to make sure that it looks proper. It might be different depending on your video. And again, if you have moving objects you will have to create a mask animation or a path animation to move it with your whatever is moving in your frame. But of course if this is a static image or something that is still in your frame, it will be a lot easier and less intensive on after effects. But content aware, it's magic and it's available in after effects now. So I hope you have fun with it. And of course, let us know if you have any questions about it.

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