Just trying to finish off Patrice Poujol's film, The Other End of the Gun. There were a few instances during the film where he was shooting with multiple cameras and the lens types were not the same. This left him with some shots that had different depths of field so I have been trying to comb through some of the edits and apply some quick and dirty techniques to try and resolve some of the inconsistencies. As I only have a night or two to wrap this up, I am trying to pull every trick in the book to try and get this done and have it not look like a half assed attempt. Below you can see one of the approaches that worked quite well in this situation. Basically I motion tracked Kate's eyes. Then went and chose a frame and made a mask and applied it a white layer. I assigned the motion tracking information so the shape would be pinned to her actual moving self. I then inverted the mask and keyed in an additional layer of the background on it. Applying a defocus blur onto the new background layer and tweaking the levels a bit, I was able to have a semi half assed rotoscoped shot where she is separated from the newly defocused background. I went in afterwards and did a few frame by frame clean ups on the mask so as not to have it look to mickey mouse. The end result is not bad, passable i think (i hope). The last few frames are from a different shot and for that I just did some simple masking. Check out the before and after shots to see the difference.