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  Red 4.1 – Colorize Glow is great effect but PixelChooser is Busted

  Posted by Larry Asbell on March 1, 2007 at 3:18 am

  Colorize Glow adds a great looking glow but when I tried to wipe a band of it across my text I found a bug in this filter’s PixelChooser. Do this simple test: In a new composition add BCC Colorize Glow to Layer 1. It should go orange. Then go to the PixelChooser tab and select Shape: Inside Rectangle. Then in the first pull down select View Chosen Pixels. You should see a white rectangle, but in most cases I find that nothing happens. Try the same with any other filter and you’ll see how it’s supposed to work.

  I get unpredictable results when I turn PixelChooser on and try to animate the region. Once I was able to animate a glow band across text but when I went to modify it PixelChooser no longer worked, i.e. the glow was on all the text all the time. Other times I can’t get it to work at all. I hope there can be a fix for this.

  When I wipe between a filtered and unfiltered layer it’s more complicated to do and it doesn’t look as good.

  Peter Mcauley replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Peter Mcauley

  March 5, 2007 at 9:46 pm

  Hi,

  I just took a look at this and agree that the pixel chooser region seems to be a little unpredictable – sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I’ll ask engineering to take a look to see if we can isolate the problem.

  Thanks for mentioning this.

  Peter.

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