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  magnifying an image in After Effects

  Posted by Amopix on January 11, 2007 at 9:08 am

  Hi,
  I would like to create my own magnifier, for exemple having a top layer going over an other one and seeing though this layer the one underneath but at a different scale.

  Hope you can help

  Thanks Mat

  Amopix replied 19 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Mylenium

  January 11, 2007 at 4:16 pm

  I’m not clear why this shoudl require any expression at all. Feel free to scale your layer up and mask it with a circular maks or whatever. Relative position coordinates do not change just by scaling a layer, so expressions are unnecessary.

  Mylenium

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  Amopix

  January 11, 2007 at 5:15 pm

  this is what I am using now but it is not very precise. Lets imagine we have 2 layers as you said, one scaled up with a mask and an other one with normal size. The image shown thru the mask will not be the corresponding image you should have as if you were using distort/magnify. This is why I need help to create a layer which reveals all that is underneath it scaled up as I want, whether it is 100%, 200% or 600%.

  Thanks

  Mat
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  Mike Clasby

  January 11, 2007 at 5:57 pm

  Not the same method, but is this what you want to do? A magnifying lens?

  https://www.adobe.com/uk/designcenter/aftereffects/articles/aft6linkeffect.html
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  Mike Clasby

  January 11, 2007 at 5:59 pm

  Soryy, I didn’t see your second post.
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  Amopix

  January 11, 2007 at 6:07 pm

  thanks a lot it seems to be quite close from what I want. Have to go. I test it tomorrow morning.

  Thanks

  Mat

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