Using After Effects Warp Stabilizer for Removing Objects In Footage

The freshly appointed product manager for After Effects, Steve Forde has recently posted an interesting use for the new Warp Stabilizer effect found in After Effects CS5.5 where you can use the Synthesize Edges option to remove objects from your video footage – pretty neat. Might be neat to see if there will be some interoperability or a modified content aware fill for video in the works.

AE CS 5.5 Warp Stabilizer – Synthesize Edges & Object Removal from AE Product Manager – Steve Forde on Vimeo.

“Back before CS 5.5 was announced I did a little sneak peak video (found here) on a new feature called ‘Warp Stabilizer’. Wow – what a cool response. Interestingly enough, I didn’t cover an important piece of the technology called synthesize edges. THEN – a user in the UK along with some folks here at Adobe did something with the technology we NEVER intended when we designed it. Definitely caused some jaws on the floor here on the AE team, and I wanted to show it to you here…”