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June 9, 2025
Question

How to fine tune the mask with sharp and round corners?

  • June 9, 2025
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As you can see in the picture there's a halo around my mask, it's hard for me to be exact with the round lines around my body and the small sharp corners around the guitar keys, also inside the edge of the guitar where the keys are placed.

I don't see an option to adjust the pen tool points like in illustrator.

As the video continues the guitar keeps moving, would I have to do frame by frame?

Would it be easier if I had a green screen?

 

Many thanks

 

2 replies

R Neil Haugen
Legend
June 9, 2025

You need to zoom in a lot in the Program monitor, so you can get finer control of moving the points. Use the control to navigate forward or back from any keyframe to the next one, then adjust the mask as needed. It can be picky work.

 

You can probably do this in Premiere, with enough time, but Ann's correct that full rotoscoping is far faster and easier in Ae.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 9, 2025

How to use the pentool

Masking and Tracking in Premiere Pro

This kind of masking or rather rotoscoping is best done in After Effects.