• Adobe After Effects

  Learning vectors

  Posted by S. Marcotte on August 6, 2007 at 5:00 pm

  I think the idea is simple enough. I have silhouetted actors in front of a green screen. I’d like to turn this into a vector mask (?) on the assumption that it would let me go in there and grab a few close-ups. They would, of course, remain in silhouette.

  I know nothing about vectors. I’m looking for a short list of key words and concepts; something I can use to get started on my research.

  Any help is appreciated.

  S. Marcotte replied 19 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Lars Bunch

  August 6, 2007 at 5:52 pm

  Hi,

  Auto trace under the layers menu should get you a good start. Or alternatively, if you have Illustrator CS2 or higher, you could export a tiff sequence and then use Bridge with Illustrator to trace your frames and then re-import them into AE.

  Hope this helps,

  Lars
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  S. Marcotte

  August 6, 2007 at 6:24 pm

  That was far, far too easy.

  Now waiting for the other shoe to drop. Thanks very much.

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