• Adobe After Effects

  Automatic Auto Trace

  Posted by Simon Noche on August 31, 2012 at 8:19 am

  Hi guys,

  I know my subject sounds weird but i’ll try to explain it as clear as I can.

  Here’s the case, what i want to happen is I want to have an auto trace in on of my compositions in a project which has a logo in it. Normally i can do this by selecting the layer then Layer> Auto trace. Now, It gives me a mask of the logo i have in that comp.

  Question is, is there a way that if i drop a different logo in the same composition, it will trace the new logo automatically without doing the Layer>Auto Trace? Is there a script which does automatic tracing without doing the manual auto trace?

  TIA!

  Tobias Harrison-banfield replied 13 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Cassius Marques

  August 31, 2012 at 1:45 pm

  Can you explain why would you want to do this? I mean, even if you find something that does auto trace for every frame on your comp…the created masks would have no relation with one another. So any effects that need a directly input from an specific mask won’t work either.
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  Tobias Harrison-banfield

  January 21, 2013 at 9:34 am

  Hi Simon,

  I also need to automate an auto-trace and am having no luck.
  I know the settings I need so just want to loop through the selected comps and apply the auto-trace via script to each one. This way I can set them running over night.

  Did you have any luck?

  Cheers,
  Toby

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