To remove some content from a footage, I created a mask and a reference frame from the footage.
But Content Aware Fill seems ignore the reference frame:
What did I do wrong? Why isn't Content Aware Fill using the reference frame for rendering its output?
Strange: The mask in the Content Aware Fill effect window is very ragged when displaying the frame using the reference frame. It doesn't resemble the selected masks at all:
It looks very different when the CTI is at another frame:
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I now found a workaround that's producing something that is, well, rather close the intended result …
The reference frame is still is ignored, yet rendered. So, I duplicated the created matte sequence and shifted an adjacent frame from that sequence above the reference image and finally hid the reference image:
Yet, that's not what I intended. The automatic dissolve algorithm didn't even come close dissolving as good as the reference image.
Allow me to be frank: The current implementation of Content Aware Fill in After Effects is crap:
- The reference image is ignored and there is no input field available in the Content Aware Fill panel for designating reference frames to the Content Aware Fill algorithm.
- I am unable to edit the reference image once it's created. I am forced to manually find the file, manually open it in PhotoShop and then finally manually update the AE reference in the project.
- Masks are not being tracked:
- I don't know if mask tracking actually has been implemented. Yet, if it existed, I would not be able to edit the mask tracking keys as there are no keys inserted into the masks' timelines.
- The whole Content Aware Fill process is far too much of a black box: I am neither able to preview nor am I able to provide hints before or to edit the generated paths after analysis.
- Even worse: The Content Aware Fill process in the version I'm using (24.5.0) is suffering from a severe memory leak. I have 128 GB of RAM. Running the Content Aware Fill process less than ten times renders my machine inaccessible: After Effects is then displaying "Out of memory" numerous times and I'm not able to gracefully shut down anything.
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