Editing a face in a video to show only the lips

[beeo99412275]

Hello,

I want to edit a video of someone's face to show only their lips as they talk. Afterwards, I want to add to the edited lips effects. How should I go about this? Should I record the video and crop? Or is there a simpler way to do this?

Thank you for reading and answering to the post.

[Peru Bob]

If the lips have lipstick on them, you can key them.

What effects will you be applying?

[eikonoklastes]

Do you mean only the lips, or do you mean the mouth. If just the lips - as Peru Bob mentioned - slap on a brightly coloured lipstick while shooting and then key it out.

If you want the lips and surrounding mouth area - you'll have to mask the mouth. This is easy if the person isn't moving, and if the person is moving - you want to track the mask too.

A reference of your goal would help.

[beeo99412275]

I'm sorry. I'm very new to the Adobe softwares, so some of the terminology

is foreign to me.

I want to record my subject's face then remove everything except the mouth

area (lips and teeth). Afterwards, edit the lips with designs.

If I key the lips, will I be able to remove the rest of the face? What

color lipstick would be good for keying?

Thank you for the replies so far. eikonoklastes​ and Peru Bob

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 6:53 AM eikonoklastes <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[Capitōlio]

Hi, I would like to do something like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKhPVHoodrU is it possible with after effects? what I should I do, thank you!

[Mike Dziennik]

The keying method will get the lips but then you will probably be missing the teeth so you'd need an 'inside' mask as well with some keyframes.

I suggest using After Effects with the Rotobrush tool in order to generate matte of the entire mouth, teeth, tongue and all.