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kaiowut99:

QUESTION!

Out of curiosity, has anyone managed to transparently render these images of Judai, Manjoume, and the rest of the crew from the 99% opening? I’m working to redo how they zip across the screen as their names come up, which I’ve been doing by masking them out of the video in Sony Vegas and I managed to get Judai done well, but I’m noticing a bit of noise in the footage I have for the Manjoume clip that’s messing with how accurately I can cut Manjoume out in Vegas without losing too much detail or color bleeding from the cards on the edges–and those sharp black edges from Kenichi Hara would be nice to keep.  Photoshop’s Magic Wand tool isn’t quite doing the job, either…

If it hasn’t been done but someone would be willing to help with that, it would be much appreciated; I’d be happy to credit you with a “Special Thanks” in the OP when I slap on the credit subs. :)

So, quick follow-up on this:

Since I didn’t get much here, I’ve managed to at least figure out a process to do these; I’m masking out each of them as accurately as I can, supplementing it with the original footage masked above and below where the names pop up to restore some of those details/make the edges of my masks less noticeable.  I also masked out Osiris-Red!Shou from the 53-56 version of the opening (before he duels Ran and moves up to Ra Yellow), after splicing a few different frames of him and touching it up in Photoshop.  Here’s how they look in action so far:

If anyone is actually able to work some magic and render them out of these shots, that’d probably be awesome, and I’m sure the fandom would like them; worst-case, I could go back and fully mask them out for folks, though it wouldn’t be perfect since it’d likely lose out on some of the edges in Sony Vegas…