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  Is it possible to make a starburst effect in a circle and not a rectangle? Masking isn’t working

  Posted by Vid Šimenc on December 15, 2016 at 7:52 pm

  Basicaly I want to expand stars from a point but it looks wierd because it expands as a rectangle and not a circle.

  Vid Šimenc replied 9 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
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  Roei Tzoref

  December 15, 2016 at 7:57 pm

  you can easily create a starburst by using a star shape layer.
  

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  Vid Šimenc

  December 15, 2016 at 8:05 pm

  Hey,

  I’m new at this and didn’t even know shape layers existed… Still catching on some beginner tutorials but I think we have different things in mind but the answer is in shape layers I jsut don’t know how to use them. Basicaly I want to have the “cc starburst” effect bound by a circle.

  https://prntscr.com/djw9rz

  And what is the easiest way to create a circle as a shape (not an elipse)? I havent seen any tutorial mention it and I’m guessing it’s such a small thing not worth mentioning.
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  Roei Tzoref

  December 15, 2016 at 9:11 pm

  I see now. this effect feeds of the pixels and masking is just giving it less pixels and not cropping it. you can create your mask on a solid in a layer on top of the layer with the CC starburst effects and set the latter to user the above layer as an alpha matte. think of it as a clipping mask
  

  more about track mattes here:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/track-mattes-luma-alpha-aftereffects.html

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  Vid Šimenc

  December 16, 2016 at 11:15 am

  Thanks for letting me know of all this options. The art in aftereffects is the way you use things. Sadly this wouldn’t work anyway. I shipped the project. It was only a couple of frames but still. At the second beat the stars launch out but with the proposed method making them circular wouldn’t be possible.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl1myArvqvY at like 3 sec

  Thanks for all the responses!
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  Roei Tzoref

  December 16, 2016 at 11:29 am

  here’s the project file:

  10878_starburstcirclecopycc13.aep.zip

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  Vid Šimenc

  December 16, 2016 at 2:13 pm

  This is awesome. Thanks for all the help I am guessing this method can be applied to all simulation and other efects that can not be masked so this will be really useful in the future. Thank you very much.

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