Back in 2018 I wrote,

Wanna feel like walking directly into the ocean? Try painstakingly isolating an object in frame after frame of video. Learning how to do this in the 90’s (using stone knives & bear skins, naturally), I just as quickly learned that I never wanted to do it again.

Happily the AE crew has kept improving automated tools, and they’ve just rolled out Roto Brush 2 in beta form. Ian Sansevera shows (below) how it compares & how to use it, and John Columbo provides a nice written overview.

Feb 06, 2020 Last Updated: February 6, 2020 Rotoscoping is a great way to isolate subjects from your footage as if they were shot on a green screen. This is a tedious and time consuming process of tracing the outline of the subject frame by frame, but luckily the rotobrush tool in Adobe After Effects (AE) makes the process much faster. Jul 11, 2020 - Here I'm taking a first look into the new beta released in After Effects 2020 for the Rotobrush 2 update.-WINBU. Mar 26, 2020 Hi all, I've been running into this really frustrating behaviour with the roto brush recently. Basically I can only do one or two actions before the entire timeline re-propagates. It used to be that it would only propagate the frames after the stroke keyframe (in the direction of propagation), allow. In this After Effects tutorial I will explore and show you how to use Rotobrush 2 (which is insane by the way). Powered by Sensei, Roto Brush 2 will select a.

In this After Effects tutorial I will explore and show you how to use Rotobrush 2 (which is insane by the way). Powered by Sensei, Roto Brush 2 will select and track the object, frame by frame, isolating the subject automatically.

Although After Effects was one of the few Creative Cloud applications not to get an update yesterday, Adobe did post a sneak peek at one of its upcoming features: the AI-powered Roto Brush 2.0 tool.

The new version of Roto Brush, which will be available in beta releases “very soon”, promises to generate roto masks for moving objects in video footage faster and more accurately than its predecessor.

Faster, more accurate rotoscoping with tolerance of occlusion by foreground objects
You can see Roto Brush 2.0 from 17:50 in the video above, in use to rotoscope moving objects – a climber on a climbing wall and a kitten walking – to isolate them from their backgrounds.

Once a roto mask has been drawn for the start frame, After Effects automatically generates corresponding masks for every subsequent frame of the footage.

According to Adobe, Roto Brush 2.0, which has been trained on real-world footage using Adobe’s Sensei machine learning technology, generates masks faster and more accurately than its predecessor.

It can also now continue to generate masks even after the object being tracked has been partly obscured by a foreground object: in the second example, after the kitten has walked behind a table leg.

Pricing and system requirements
Adobe hasn’t said exactly when Roto Brush 2.0 will become available in After Effects.

The current stable release, After Effects 17.1, is avaiable for Windows 10 and macOS 10.13+ on a rental-only basis. Subscriptions cost $31.49/month or $239.88/year.

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