HARD REMOVE - Boom Mic

Mocha Pro
#1

Hi, this is Michael. Need to remove this boom mic from a 4 second clip. Removed the mic cleanly awhile back but for some reason decided to delete and try again. (Don’t ask)

Now I can’t figure out how I tracked the wall initially. Every time I try now it ends up being jittery. Maybe I’m just thinking too much into it but do I need to track perspective and shear?

Or just translation/scale/rotation.

Tried every combo and STILL can’t get the track to stick. Spare me the grainy footage/shaky camera suggestions, I already know this. Aware it makes tracking it more difficult.

Fact is, this is the best performance and need tp remove mic. Would love some help/solutions to tracking the walls.

I originally tracked the poster and linked the poster track to the wall. But the poster track wasn’t a stable of a track because the guy crosses over it. Here’s a snapshot on the second farthest I’ve gotten.

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Struggling with the concept on tracking perspective and shear. Do I need it in this shot? Rememer Tracking translation only helped me out a bunch in my first attempt but maybe I’m just telling myself that cause I can’t remember.

Also, track translation only a couple frames to get past some tricky areas but when I switch to tracking all parameters again the translation keyframes disappear. I click translation only and they reappear but my perspective keyframes are gone. Do I have bugs in my tracking or what.

Anyways, end rant. Looking forward to hearing from someone on a solution to this.

Thanks again

#2

TBH until you pointed it out, I didn’t even see the boom. :joy:

I’ll take a stab at it and see if there is an easy solution, but you’re right, this is tricky,

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#3

Thanks, know it’s possible because my first attempt, where I deleted the project to start over, the boom was removed minus small artifacts after I created a clean plate. Think I deleted it cause I figured it was had black artifacts on the side wall and didn’t think I tracked it properly… Wishing I could hop in a time machine, tell myself not to delete that project. Saved me loads of stress.

Thanks again,
Keep me posted

#4

This is by no means perfect (some mask cleanups might be necessary), but it should help:
boom remove.mocha (1.2 MB)

I created clean plates on 4 frames: 23, 47, 63 and 78. You’re probably better off recreating these yourself as they were simple stamp jobs, but if you want mine I can zip them up.

TBH the hardest part is the blur and grain.

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#5

I appreciate you giving it a try. It was causing me nothing bur heart ache.

Sounds good, will go ahead and create my own clean plates. Will let you know otherwise.

Thank you