Answers.Body: <p>All of these seem to be simple circle mattes, you just need an editing system that allows you to generate a circle mask that has an animatable position. </p>
  
  <p>You will need 3 pieces of media:
  1- the original footage
  2- the new actor to go in the circle (or a neutral shot)
  3- the moving circle mask</p>
  
  <p>You will need to animate the circle to follow the original circle, then use the circle mask to reveal the new footage in the hole.</p>
  
  <p>I can recommend using the Open Software "Blender", it has a Video editor called the VSE and a system of user defined masks that you can animate with.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Imageneer systems,  Mocha Pro is about as easy as it gets.
  <a href="http://www.imagineersystems.com/videos/removing-a-microphone-with-mocha-pro-and-adobe-photoshop/?back=http://www.imagineersystems.com/video/page/2/?dd=dateNew&amp;orderby=date&amp;order=DESC" rel="nofollow">See this example/tutorial</a><br>
  But it is far from simple!</p>
  
  <p>There are versions of Mocha available for After Effects and Hitfilm as well. I'm not sure If they are capable of doing this.  </p>
  
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Body: <p>I want to edit this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkNeQdLg6Nc" rel="nofollow">montage of James Bond Intros</a>. What I want is remove the real james bond, as a beginner what will you suggest a good video editor for this kind of situation?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Okay, so what is it that you would like to achieve, would you like to replace the subject, or do you simply just want to omit him from the shot?
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Title: How can a beginner remove an actor from footage?
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ThreadText: # How can a beginner remove an actor from footage?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-11-14)
  
  I want to edit this [montage of James Bond Intros](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkNeQdLg6Nc). What I want is remove the real james bond, as a beginner what will you suggest a good video editor for this kind of situation?
  
  **Tags:** video-editor, software-recommendation
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Okay, so what is it that you would like to achieve, would you like to replace the subject, or do you simply just want to omit him from the shot?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-01-08. Score: 1
  
  All of these seem to be simple circle mattes, you just need an editing system that allows you to generate a circle mask that has an animatable position.
  
  You will need 3 pieces of media:
  1- the original footage
  2- the new actor to go in the circle (or a neutral shot)
  3- the moving circle mask
  
  You will need to animate the circle to follow the original circle, then use the circle mask to reveal the new footage in the hole.
  
  I can recommend using the Open Software "Blender", it has a Video editor called the VSE and a system of user defined masks that you can animate with.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-12-05. Score: 0
  
  Imageneer systems, Mocha Pro is about as easy as it gets.
  [See this example/tutorial](http://www.imagineersystems.com/videos/removing-a-microphone-with-mocha-pro-and-adobe-photoshop/?back=http://www.imagineersystems.com/video/page/2/?dd=dateNew&orderby=date&order=DESC)  
  But it is far from simple!
  
  There are versions of Mocha available for After Effects and Hitfilm as well. I'm not sure If they are capable of doing this.
  
  
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