Best way to remove unwanted object from video?

ckatosmith

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Jun 05, 2014 14:20

I could have sworn (but can't find it now) that Cyberlink has a commercial for PD12 that shows removing an unwanted object from a VIDEO, not just one photo. There was a clip of tourists boating, and showing PD removing a swimming ?dolphin/porpoise in front of the boat. I was excited by that aspect, because it was akin to using Content Aware in Photoshop to remove an object from a picture.

I can't find it now. Well, I have some things I need to remove from a video... like a logo from the front of a tee shirt. I don't want to just blur it, but completely remove it. Should I take snapshots of the offending frames, removing the logos in Photoshop or PhotoDirector and replacing the unwanted frames in the PD with the newly edited frames, but I don't know how to do that.

Is that the most efficient way to have a clean output?

I've tried the regional tools in ColorDirector thinking I could swap out a color of a selected region, or maybe to try and paint in a color (would pick a surrounding color) but maybe I'm just not skilled enough at it or don't know how to yet.

Thanks if I can be pointed in the right direction. Clean/flawless output more important than pain in the process.

I'm still learning PD (I just learned how to Trim, so I'm still on baby steps, heh heh).

PlaySound

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Jun 05, 2014 19:36

I do not know in PD, a way to remove objects from a video, PhotoDirector3 or more, does this for photos. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
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ckatosmith

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Jun 05, 2014 21:02

Thank you playsound.

So if I edit a frame in a photo editor, how do I overwrite the unwanted frame back in PD? Or how do I insert the edited frame on the time line and then delete the old unwanted frame? Do I swap/replace somehow, or overwrite, or cut/paste somehow? Sorry, still a beginner. I am happy to be directed to a tutorial for this.

I did see that Adobe AE has a roto brush tool. Are there any plugins compatible with PD that have a similar function or have a paint brush tool?

Thank you.

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PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Jun 05, 2014 21:38

I have no experience with transforming video (still images) automatically would be 30 or 60 per second, is a lot of work to do one by one, but can be done.
Maybe someone with knowledge but tell you a way to transform video in sequence of photos automatically.

In PhotoDictor adds sequence of photos and corrects one by one.
At the end export images all at once.
Adds a sequence of photos in PowerDirector, as Slideshow uses "Time Slape" to reassemble the video.
It's just my thought did not in practice. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
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Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jun 05, 2014 22:59

Quote: I could have sworn (but can't find it now) that Cyberlink has a commercial for PD12 that shows removing an unwanted object from a VIDEO, not just one photo. There was a clip of tourists boating, and showing PD removing a swimming ?dolphin/porpoise in front of the boat. I was excited by that aspect, because it was akin to using Content Aware in Photoshop to remove an object from a picture.

ColorDirector may be the program you saw advertised.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWDijWXR-Ag&feature=player_embedded

ColorDirector:
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/colordirector/features_en_US.html?&r=1

Read the part about Track Any Moving Object.

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ckatosmith

Newbie Joined: May 28, 2014 11:58 Messages: 24 Offline

Jun 06, 2014 02:32

Carl,

I still haven't located the ad video, but I do have Color Director 2, so will try those out for removing, or at least changing the colors of the tee shirt logos versus blurring it.

To my newbie mind, I don't see the difference between changing a color by tracking motion versus the other video on changing color via selection masks & keyframes, but I'm looking forward to trying it out next week. The logo in my clip only shows up for a couple of seconds, so maybe key frames is used? I'll try them both out next week. Thank you for the direction.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jun 06, 2014 10:43

Quote: Carl,

I still haven't located the ad video, but I do have Color Director 2, so will try those out for removing, or at least changing the colors of the tee shirt logos versus blurring it.

To my newbie mind, I don't see the difference between changing a color by tracking motion versus the other video on changing color via selection masks & keyframes, but I'm looking forward to trying it out next week. The logo in my clip only shows up for a couple of seconds, so maybe key frames is used? I'll try them both out next week. Thank you for the direction.

The difference is motion.

If the person wearing the shirt moves, the color would not follow, thus the motion tracking in ColorDirector.

It is possible to do motion tracking in Powerdirector using Key Frames, but you have to do the key framing yourself.
Less work in ColorDirector.

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