Answers.Body: <p>I think you need to use the Rotobrush rotoscope tool in AE.. Good luck!  It will take a while...</p>
  
  <p>Tutorial link:
  <a href="https://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/after-effects-cs5-roto/1" rel="nofollow">https://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/after-effects-cs5-roto/1</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: Yeah, I knew no matter how efficient a tool I find, this is going to be pretty time consuming.  It's about 1800 frames.  I'll check that tool out though.
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Answers.Text: Mocha plugin for AE is also worth a look.  It's been used to roto a lot of feature films.
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Answers.Body: <p>I'm fairly certain you can use alpha masking in Premiere.  Basically you make a black and white animated layer that provides the opacity for the footage in Premiere and the effect gets applied to combine the two layers.  I will double check when I get home to make sure I'm not accidentally thinking of After Effects though.  I sometimes cross the two in my head since I switch between them pretty readily.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Think the advantage of the rotobrush is that it will try to predict where the edges are moving to, so in theory you don't have to re-adjust every frame, only correct it when it goes wrong. In practice though, it's not that clever...
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Answers.Text: You might also want to check out After Effect's mask tracking https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/rigid-mask-tracking.html
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Body: <p>Basically my problem is I have footage which I need to manually key.  I need something like an unlimited point matte which would allow me to cut an actor out of a background by hand with no limits on the number of points in the matte.  Ideally this would be done in Premiere, but I have access to After Effects as well, I just don't like using it.  Also, if this is possible to do frame by frame as an image sequence in something like GIMP I can do that to.  I'm not sure if it's possible to import an alpha channel into Premiere though.</p>
  
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Title: Is there such thing as an unlimited point matte in Premiere?
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ThreadText: # Is there such thing as an unlimited point matte in Premiere?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-12-31)
  
  Basically my problem is I have footage which I need to manually key. I need something like an unlimited point matte which would allow me to cut an actor out of a background by hand with no limits on the number of points in the matte. Ideally this would be done in Premiere, but I have access to After Effects as well, I just don't like using it. Also, if this is possible to do frame by frame as an image sequence in something like GIMP I can do that to. I'm not sure if it's possible to import an alpha channel into Premiere though.
  
  **Tags:** after-effects, premiere, keyframes
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-12-31. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  I think you need to use the Rotobrush rotoscope tool in AE.. Good luck! It will take a while...
  
  Tutorial link:
  <https://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/after-effects-cs5-roto/1>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Yeah, I knew no matter how efficient a tool I find, this is going to be pretty time consuming.  It's about 1800 frames.  I'll check that tool out though.  
  > **username_2**: Mocha plugin for AE is also worth a look.  It's been used to roto a lot of feature films.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2014-12-31. Score: 0
  
  I'm fairly certain you can use alpha masking in Premiere. Basically you make a black and white animated layer that provides the opacity for the footage in Premiere and the effect gets applied to combine the two layers. I will double check when I get home to make sure I'm not accidentally thinking of After Effects though. I sometimes cross the two in my head since I switch between them pretty readily.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Think the advantage of the rotobrush is that it will try to predict where the edges are moving to, so in theory you don't have to re-adjust every frame, only correct it when it goes wrong. In practice though, it's not that clever...  
  > **username_4**: You might also want to check out After Effect's mask tracking https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/rigid-mask-tracking.html  
  
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