Hello everybody and welcome back to Gal yes it is Adobe update season the spring
is here and NAB is next week and that means that Adobe has just released a
whole bunch of new improvements and updates across all their creative cloud
apps so I'm going to be doing a series going into depth on how these different
updates work because when Adobe releases them it's kind of like just
like a list of the different updates they don't really go in depth so I hope
that this will show you how to use some of the updates so this video is showing
you how to use the content aware fill in After Effects and basically what this
enables you to do let's say you're shooting a scene in a landscape and a
tourist is walking in the shot and you want to remove them well you can use the
content-aware fill to take those people out as if they weren't there at all or
let's say you're doing an interview and you have an object in the background
that you forgot was there and you're like crap I don't want to reshoot it you
don't have the budget to reshoot it but you can use content aware fill to do
this easily inside of After Effects so now I've played with this just a little
bit and so far it's worked pretty good so we're really going to test this out
together to really test the limits and see you know what type of shot that
works well with and other shots where it might be more difficult to use and
lastly Before we jump in be sure to let me know what you want to learn next in
the next episode on the update series for this spring for example there's
updates to essential graphics as essential sound panel for sound editing
there's a lot of different effects on that I'll put in the description box
below as well as performance update so let me know what you guys want to learn
and I'll stop talking and let's jump in all right you guys I'm in the newest
version of After Effects make sure that you guys update because the update is
available if you want to try this out and follow along make sure to go up to
After Effects about After Effects and make sure that you're in version 16.1
which is the latest version so in this particular shot I'm going to remove the
Apple logo from the back of this laptop because let's say you didn't have
permission to use it or you didn't want to feature apples brand in this
particular shot so all we have to do here
select the video clip from our composition that I have open and then
make sure you go up to the pen tool or hit G on your keyboard and then we're
just going to draw a simple square mask around this Apple logo just make sure
it's right around the Apple as close as possible just like this and then from
the mask that was created down here make sure to select subtract because we want
to subtract that from the scene next because this is not a moving shot just a
steady shot here we don't have to worry about tracking this mask so now from
content-aware field this is where I can go in and make sure I'm using the
correct fill method so in this case we want to be using a surface because this
is a surface on the back of the laptop and then we want to use the work area
which is just the area in between this blue handle start and the work area and
blue handle here then generate fill layer and what this
will do is it will start to analyze the clip and then it will start to render
out a new fill in the place of this mask so you can see a new fill layer was
created and you can start to see the magic happen so it's rendering
frame-by-frame it's almost done and shortly I will show you that if you had
no idea that we created a mask you probably wouldn't have even known that
the Apple logo was there so to preview what it was like before just changed
this back to none and then turn off the fill layer and you will see the before
and after which is pretty cool now this was a simple shot let's move on to a
shot where there's people so in this shot it's a moving shot it's tracking shot
and the people are moving so what I'm going to do here is just draw a mask
around these people and remove them so to do that same method just select the
video clip here now let's zoom in I like to just grab
the magnifying zoom tool and let's just lasso and select them then go to the pen
tool and let's just draw a simple mask it doesn't have to be complex just draw like
so that looks good we don't have to do like a very detailed mask it's very
simple to do then from the mask drop-down choose
subtract and the next step is just to make sure that your fill method this
time is not surface but object and also we want to choose work area but before
we had generate fill layer we have to track this rectangle which means we want
to make sure that it's completely covering the people as they're walking
so to do that just expand the mask and click on the toggle animation next to
mask path now as I scrub forward I will look to see if I start to see the people
there see how the people pop out so just before that I want to select the mask
path then use my selection tool and I'm just going to move this mask over it
very simply like so and same thing I'm just going to move forward until I start
to see somebody's leg oh there it is and then I'm going to move this forward
and there we go keep doing it it's not the most fun process but it's pretty
simple to do I always like to do it manually like this because I have more
control so once again there's a little bit there so just before that I'm going
to move this over and there we go let's go ahead and fit it and then all we have
to do is generate a fill layer and once again it will start to analyze the clip
and it will replace the people so I have to say that this did a pretty good job
if I didn't know that there were people in the scene
I probably would not even know that there's a mask there so this is pretty
cool work one last shot that I want to show you but it won't actually create
the mask and go over it because it's the exact same method that I showed you here
and so in this shot there were actually people here so if I turn off our fill
layer you can see that there are people walking so what I did let me turn the
fill back on is I created mask here and they're more circular mask I use the
pen tool and I just if you click and hold you can create like rounded curves
so that's what I did I just created like little little shapes around these people
and then I track them just like in this shot and then I was able to just
generate this fill layer to make them disappear and I think it did a pretty
good job if i zoom in it's more noticeable and I would probably have to
make a more detailed mask here but you can see that these shadows from the edge
of the wall are a little bit more extended here because there is a mask
but to the first observer it's not that noticeable so I would just play around
with the content-aware fill until you start to nail it down a little bit again
this is my first time using it and already I've had a couple successful
shots so I think this could be useful for you guys if you're shooting
interviews and there's an object in the scene that you need to get rid of you
could use this tool for that and I'm sure there's tons of other use cases
where you would find this useful so play around with it have fun let me know if
you guys have any questions so content-aware fill good/bad some
improvement not sure let me know what you guys think in a comment below and
also let me know what you guys want me to cover next with the Adobe updates
there's essential graphics updates essential sound stuff GPU performance
let me know what you're interested in me covering I love doing this stuff the NAB
stuff is really cool for me to cover so just let me know and there was one other
thing I want to tell you that oh yeah I released a new wedding title pack on my
store so I make templates each month and I designed them specifically for my
patrons so if you guys want some free templates each month you should
join my patreon community but I do sell the template separately in my store if
you just want to do a one-off purchase so check it out it's pretty cool I'm
pretty proud of it I had a lot of fun with the designs and they were designed
in Premiere Pro I didn't use After Effects so I made all of the shapes
custom so you can change the color of all the lines and yeah I just hope you
guys find it useful so that's it and I will see you guys next time for the next
update video bye
you