Wire removal

Wire removal is a visual effects technique used to remove wires in films, usually to simulate flying in actors or miniatures.
Wire removal can be partly automated through various forms of keying, or each. frame can be edited manually. First, the live action plates of actors or models suspended on wires are filmed in front of a green screen Editors can then erase the wires frame by frame, without worrying about erasing the backdrop, which will be added later. This can be accomplished automatically with a computer. If the sequence is not filmed in front of a green-screen a digital editor must hand-paint the lines out. This can be an arduous task.
It can be partly automated through various forms of keying, or each frame can be edited manually. Live action plates of actors suspended on wires are placed in front of a green screen. Editors can then erase the wires frame by frame, without worrying about erasing the backdrop, which will be added later.

Plug-ins for Wire Removal

ADI FilmPAK - Color and tone scale manipulation, film grain management, wire and rig removal.
Boris FX, Inc. Continuum Complete - A comprehensive set of over 150 most powerful, flexible effects including advanced keying, matting, compositing, image processing, distortion, temporal effects and motion tracking.
Boris FX, Inc. RED - The only integrated 3D compositing, titling, and effects application to over twenty nonlinear editing applications.
Boris FX, Inc. Final Effects Complete - Otherwise known as simply "FEC" and recently acquired by Boris from Optibase via Media100, originally developed by Cycore, Final Effects Complete is a collection of over 100 plug-ins.
Red Giant Software Composite Wizard - Automate color correction effects, blur or feather edge borders, and clean up unwanted artifacts.
Silhouette Paint - An innovative high dynamic range 2D paint system that works with Silhouette Roto.