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Retouch footage using clone presets and shortcuts-galore
In this step’s illustration, point 1 marks our sampling 5. Remove a straight line with two clicks and no
point, point 2 marks the start of our stroke, and point 3 dragging.
marks the end of our dragging. When we set the source
Click the second clone preset button in the Paint palette
position and created a clone stroke, After Effects
to preserve the first clone preset and set a new preset.
automatically set up the first clone preset in the Paint
Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the area
palette, simply because the first clone preset button was
you want to start cloning from. To clone over a straight
active. Each clone preset saves the current Aligned, Lock
continuous area, click one end of the straight area, and
Source Time, Source Time Shift, Offset/Source Point,
then Shift-click the other end.
and Source layer option settings. When we need to
clone from an area above where we’re applying a clone To remove a straight power line in our footage, we
stroke, we can quickly click the first clone preset button sampled an area of the sky very close to one end of the
in the Paint palette and begin cloning. power line (point 1 in this step’s illustration). Next, we
clicked the power line at the end that’s near where we
sampled from (point 2), and Shift-clicked the power
line’s opposite end (point 3).
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ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 6.5 3
Retouch footage using clone presets and shortcuts-galore
If you have difficulty keeping track of which clone In our example, we want to clone in only the branches
preset has the offset you need, select Clone Source in the middle portion of the leaves.mov layer and
Overlay in the Paint palette, and then press 3 through 7 position them in the upper right corner of the
on the keyboard while the pointer is in the Layer statue01.mov layer. So we dragged from the leftmost
window. The clone source overlay displays a translucent point of the branch to the right until it was in the
image of the layer you’re sampling from over the current desired position.
layer; the current sampling point appears directly below
the clone tool pointer.
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