• Adobe After Effects

  Making a new layer our of motion-tracked field

  Posted by Lou De bink on February 6, 2013 at 5:14 pm

  Hey there,

  I just started with AE. tried the search function but couldn’t find anything… I have a moving object in my shot, which is motion tracked. I’m trying to make text layers dissapear behind the moving object. Is there some kind of layer which obscures the text but leaves the motion tracked object transparent ? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Cheers,

  Lou

  Vishesh Arora replied 13 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  February 6, 2013 at 11:49 pm

  You’ll need at least three layers:

  top) duplicate of footage layer with foreground subject masked/isolated
  middle) text
  bottom) duplicate of footage layer for background

  You can use several techniques for isolating the foreground object. Rotoscoping by animating masks is one, using Roto Brush is another.

  These compositing basics are introduced here:
  https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS5822310e5111fa1a11d362d31238b283695-8000.html

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  Vishesh Arora

  February 7, 2013 at 10:18 am

  Lou

  This tutorials will help :

  Rotoscoping by animating mask

  Vishesh Arora
  3D and Motion Graphics Artist
  Films Rajendra

  Blog:
  https://digieffects.wordpress.com

  2011 3D Demo Reel:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

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