COW Tutorials: After Effects A Film Compositor’s Techniques for Rotoscoping

[Movie Maker]

Hi, I love this tutorial and have followed most of it to create my own effect.

I took my son and daughter out and filmed them on their bicycles.

I have imported footage and followed through the masking process.

Getting stuck at the point where you anchor the SOLID to the FOOTAGE. I am using AE 6.5.1.

I can find the ANCHOR on solid and POSITION on footage but I cant find the drag tool (name doesnt come to mind at moment) to link them.

many thanks
Jimmy

[Steve Roberts]

You want to create an expression using the pickwhip. To activate the pickwhip, you need to alt-click on the stopwatch for the property you’re dragging from, then drag. Check the AE help on expressions.

[Movie Maker]

Many thanks, ‘PickWhip’ that the word I was looking for. Found it and applied it, I will continue with project.

thanks again
Jimmy

[Steve Roberts]

Yeah, the vocabulary can be a hurdle sometimes. Good luck!