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  Placing a mask in Premiere from After Effects

  Posted by Kristine Halmrast on June 30, 2013 at 7:05 pm

  Hei,

  In the video the actor is blinking his eyes every now and then. I want his eyes to stay open during the whole scene. He´s lying still staring into the camera, the only movement is in the madrass. This is a one take, so there´s no option to cut to another picture. I created a mask with his open eyes in After Effects, and imported that one back to Premiere Pro. It´s close to perfect, but I can´t seem to get the the mask 100% in place in Premiere Pro, so his eyes gets a slight jump. A lot of fun, but not what my goal is…
  Is there a way that I can tell the mask exactly where to be? Now I´m just zooming in, trying endlessly to get it into place.

  I´m using Cs6. My work flow has been:
  Premiere Pro: right click the clip -> “replace with after effects composition” ->
  After Effects: Created a mask of his eyes + pressed: “add” ->
  Premiere Pro: placed the open eyes clip over his blinking eyes clip

  Hope someone has an answer to this one.

  Best wishes
  Kristine

  Kristine

  Kristine Halmrast replied 12 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Ann Bens

  June 30, 2013 at 10:48 pm

  Do the whole eye blinking/mask thing in AE, much more controle.
  When finished export as a lossless file and import into Pro.

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  Kristine Halmrast

  June 30, 2013 at 11:41 pm

  Aha, thank you! That wil probably do the trick. I´m new to AE. I´ll let you know how it works out.

  Best wishes
  Kristine
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  Ger Meeuwissen

  June 30, 2013 at 11:53 pm

  Did you try to use 50% opacity on the top layer so that you can see the eyes below?

  Ger Meeuwissen
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  Kristine Halmrast

  July 1, 2013 at 12:22 am

  Yeah, I did, didn´t do the trick. I´m using a mouse, maybe a pen would be more accurate.

  Best wishes
  Kristine

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