9 Using the Roto Brush Tool

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

Extract a foreground object from the background using the Roto Brush tool.

Correct the segmentation boundary across a span of frames.

Touch up a matte with the Refine Edge tool.

Freeze a matte across a clip.

Animate properties for creative effects.

Track a face in footage.

This lesson will take approximately an hour to complete. Download the project files for this

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