A lot of viewers have asked me, "Hey Daniel...
Can I remove an element from my video using FIlmora9?"
You can remove entire people from your video
Now to be fair to the ladies, you can remove men to
Stick around, I'll show you how.
She seems way too happy about that!
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What you want to do is find a piece of footage to use in your project and bring it down into your
timeline now this may not work with every single piece of footage but it
will with one's if you know what to look for in this case the camera is very
still and there's a lot of area to work with inside of that piece of footage now
the way we're gonna do this is by creating two layers of the same footage
so let's bring down that same footage into a layer above the first aligning it
exactly the same somewhere in the middle of your video where the motion seems to
be going on with the subject you're trying to remove what you want to do is
take a snapshot now I've showed you how to use affinity photo and some of my
recent tutorials and we're going to be using it yet again here to accomplish
something I haven't showed you which is the ability to create custom masks in
filmora let's open up affinity photo and let's bring our snapshot into the
project once you've imported your image you want to go up to the upper left and
click on layer and add a new layer in the upper right let's make sure we've
selected black as a color for our eyedropper and put it into our
foreground color so that black will be the color that we're using in our
brushes or paint tools now over in the left let's select our paintbrush tool
and I'm going to bring up the width of this tool so it's a little bit bigger
let's make sure our opacity our flow and our hardness are all up at 100% and
while we have our new layer selected let's draw over the image of the woman
or object that we want to remove make sure you stay a little bit outside of
her body we want to give room for any movement that she might make but I also
don't want to eliminate anything like the little green island sections behind
her I just want to remove the woman that bit of ocean in that section of
sand let me color this all in to create a custom mask shape kind of looks like a
cat and once we're done all we're going to do is turn off the main layer and
once that's completely black let's go up to file and let's export this as a PNG
or transparent file and we're done now back in our filmora project let's go up
to the effects tab let's go over to utility 9 and let's select the mask tool
and left-click drag that down into your top layer we've now applied a mask to
the top layer if we double left-click on that upper track in our timeline it will
open up the features in the upper left to dig deeper into this track let's
click on the video tab and down below you'll see under the video effects tab
the mask layer that we just added now a lot of you are used to the mask feature
and the preset masks that are incorporated into filmora 9 but one
thing that you may not have seen is at the very beginning of your masks
features you have the ability to import your own custom masks we'll click on
that feature let's find the mask we just created and bring it in now under your
mask selection if you scroll down at the very end you'll see that your custom
mask has been added as an option select that until it's surrounded by a red box
and your mask has been applied now you can't see that right now because I have
it stacked on top of an identical piece of footage if I turn that lower track
off you'll see the mask is applied but it's the opposite of what I want
currently it's masking out everything else and leaving her in so I want to
make sure in the upper left and the mask options I invert this mask that way
she's masked out and the rest of the scene is allowed to show now when we
remove something from a shot like this the trick is we have to know that we
have something to replace it this is why we've created another layer of the same
footage underneath I knew if I removed her from here there was probably enough
going on just to left of it that was similar that I could
move into that place instead that's the real trick don't remove anything if you
don't have something else to replace it with so what I'll do here is down in my
timeline I'm going to lock the top track I'm gonna make sure the bottom track is
enabled and I'm gonna double left-click on it to activate it up in the preview
window now if I click in that preview window and start to move the lower track
you can see I can actually move her out of the scene and have another portion of
this take the place of where she was standing now it's a simple matter of
stretching this footage out and getting it to sit in a way that we only see sand
and water where she's been masked out that's pretty close but I can still see
a little bit of the mask edge we can take care of that by left-clicking on
our track in the main timeline going down to the video effects and let's
increase the mask feather you'll see that footage start to blend in now when
I rewind my footage in play you can see I have eliminated the woman and replace
it with another section of that footage that looks just like the beach and water
pretty cool huh? if you want to learn more Filmora tips
tricks and techniques... make sure you click on the links that are on screen now
or the ones I'll pin down below
Peace!