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  • Not rendering a mask out properly.

    Posted by Malcolm Desoto on November 3, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    So the top screen shot is from AE

    The bottom is from Avid.

    For some reason, AE is not rendering out a mask correctly.

    As you can see, the curtain pulls back and reveals the next scene. The curtain element was shot in front of a green screen but didn’t key out as well as I’d hoped. So, I used a little mask to help it along.

    ae screen

    Banana Hut_final

    It looks fine in AE when I do a RAM preview. Anyone know what might be happening in the final render process?

    “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein

    Malcolm Desoto replied 17 years, 10 months ago 25,085 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Malcolm Desoto

    November 3, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    whoa, the post squished the photos.

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  • Malcolm Desoto

    November 3, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    The curtain element is a 3d comp. All the layers within the comp are 3d. I have the continually rasterize switch on. I tried slipping an adjustment layer in between the curtain and another layer to see if that’ll do anything.

    I’ll know after it renders.

    “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein

  • Malcolm Desoto

    November 5, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    UPDATE:

    Well, I have no idea what’s wrong. I tried pre-comping layers, removing what I thought would be the offending layers, rearranging layer orders, rendering out the curtain layer and then reimporting it as a .mov.

    Nothing worked. Like I said, it would RAM preview fine, but would always render out bad. I ended up doing a full res RAM preview of the scene and then just saving the preview.

    “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein

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