[Bf-committers] Masks are not only for Mattes

[Nate Wiebe]

Completely agree here. I think it would be ideal to be able to edit
the mask inside of the compositor instead of having to jump between
different windows.

-NateW


On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com
<zanqdo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh for the Exeter video jump to min 11:00
>
> Daniel Salazar
> patazstudio.com
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com <
> zanqdo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been testing the cool mask editor and have detected that it is
>> too centered around the matte workflow. Rotoscoping is one big use of masks
>> but it is not the only one by far
>>
>> Another big (arguably bigger) use case for masks is to localize composite
>> effects
>>
>> In the making of of Exeter Shot by alex roman you can see the heavy use of
>> power windows and other kinds of masks to colorize, darken, etc zones of
>> the composition
>>
>> https://vimeo.com/8217700
>>
>> We got to rethink how to present the masking tools not as something
>> strictly attached to a footage but something of regular use in the
>> compositor for any scene, even fully generated
>>
>> Part of the solution can be to allow a compositor viewer to feed the mask
>> editor, this way we can see the composited results under the masks. Similar
>> to my simple design from more than a year ago that used the image viewer to
>> both edit masks and also load the viewer result
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/15LEi9SAE4KcsIOdWX16iPoSXhCjM0vA1ws6KxF4Dhzk/edit?authkey=CJ7U-dQK&authkey=CJ7U-dQK
>>
>> Another problem is the difficulty to manage multiple masks at once. The
>> current workflow contemplates editing of one mask, if you need another mask
>> you need to disable the current one and create a new mask databloq. Even
>> with layers available they can only be retrieved as a single mask in the
>> compositor, hence being useful for a single effect. In practice you will
>> need many fully independant masks acting in a single composite. One for
>> colorizing some part, one for darkening, one or two for blurring, etc.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Daniel Salazar
>> patazstudio.com
>>
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