Am I allowed to make a request for a quick video edit here?

[budwzr]

I tried upsampling it a lot, to try and get a cutout of the weights, enlarge them a bit, and float that on top of the original. But there's too many mosquitoes from the compression.

And the color gradients around the weights are very similar, so it would be hard to cut it out just using a magic wand or secondary color corrector. Would have to be handcut.

[racer-x]

Let's see what budwzr comes up with first

Hahaha, I hand you off the baton Maybe one of those AviUtil wizards can do it. They talk a loud game.

I could probably do it with Aviutl, but I'm too busy shooting and editing Eagles lately....

I'm not sure this is a good idea anyway, cheating is cheating. Back when I was 35, I was trying to bench press twice my weight (165 lbs). I would've needed to bench 330 lbs, the best I managed was 320 lbs. Still I think it was a good effort for an all natural. These days, I just bench dumbbells, easier on the rotator cuffs...

...By the way, here's a dancing eagle I filmed the other day.

[budwzr]

Nice eagle shot. Majestic birds.

[poisondeathray]

Yes, nice eagle racer

For the lift composite - it's not "easy", but it's not so bad that you have to do it frame by frame.

I would motion track it in mocha and link your masks to the tracking data (one for the collar, one for the barbell). It has a vertex link feature, so the masks can be linked (e.g. where the barbell meets the collar). You need to do this because the collar has to be moved if you want to widen the plate. There might be a couple of frames you have to manually adjust a bit, but it sure hell of a lot faster than doing it frame by frame. For the compression and noise issues - I would do what I suggested earlier, denoise, do the composite, and renoise later (or just leave it "clean")

[budwzr]

No doubt motion tracking it would be the best and highest option. But unfortunately, I don't believe in putting ten dollar cuts on a fifty cent head. And the OP wanted it yesterday.

I only have the "toy" version of Mocha built into HitFilm anyway.

[poisondeathray]

No doubt motion tracking it would be the best and highest option. But unfortunately, I don't believe in putting ten dollar cuts on a fifty cent head. And the OP wanted it yesterday.

Hahaha , yes sir , right away sir

I can tell you right now, that with motion tracking, it will "miss" a few frames from the problems mentioned earlier - you will need to manually adjust a few frames. But it might only take a few minutes vs. hours doing it frame by frame. I'll do it for fun later today

Rotobrush is semi-automated, as is the mask tracker in AE, but those are not as precise as mocha. They each have situations where they might be more suitable for. With mocha, you can track some planar surface and link masks to that data (you don't have to track the exact spot that you need, nor do you have to do separate tracks per mask, you only need 1 track as long as the objects are in the same relationship like the collar vs. the barbell, you can offset the planar data)

You only need the "lite" version of mocha to do this (it comes with AE as well), you don't need the pro version

[budwzr]

Yeah, if you want to try your hand on that you have my interest.

[poisondeathray]

It's a good learning clip - you can practice on it so when you have to "fix" or composite stuff in your own shots, you 'll know what to do or at least have another technique/approach in the tool belt

[poisondeathray]

yep, because of the problems mentioned earlier, there are some tracking issues, but it mostly tracks ok, still way faster than manually doing it frame by frame

I used smdegrain() in avisynth to produce a "clean" version , tracked in mocha , linked the 2 masks to the data, then applied distortion through the masks in AE

I attached the "clean" version below . As mentioned earlier, you could re-apply the noise if you wanted to, or apply the composite back to the "dirty" version - but he should have uploaded an original, original version, not a re-encoded version. It didn't sound like quality was too important for his purposes. Noise and grain also help to "hide" the seams that might break apart on non accurate mask tracks - but I think it's good enough for a quick fix

[budwzr]

OK, hang on, let me jot this down.....

[budwzr]

It's a good learning clip - you can practice on it so when you have to "fix" or composite stuff in your own shots, you 'll know what to do or at least have another technique/approach in the tool belt

Yes Yes. Although the number of tools are finite, the approach/technique's are infinite. This thread is of particular interest to me because I DO want to make the transition from keyframe tracking, to point tracking.

It takes a little while for these newer concepts, like planar tracking, to sink in. And it's easy to stay in the same mode. So we will all learn something here.

[racer-x]

A silly request deserves a silly response....

[budwzr]

Hahahaha, You win the award! Awesome!