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  • morphing in AE?

    Posted by Chuck Obernesser on March 15, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    Hello to all…
    I used to use Shake from apple for compositing, but it was just so confusing to me and that is why I switched to AE. The one thing I did like in shake though was the morphing tool. Does AE have anything like that or could someone tell how you would approach this in AE?

    Thanks

    Chuck
    Obernesser Productions
    http://www.obernesserproductions.com

    Lorraine Starr replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Darby Edelen

    March 16, 2008 at 2:11 am

    [Chuck Obernesser] “Does AE have anything like that or could someone tell how you would approach this in AE?”

    AE has an effect under Distort > Reshape that will allow you to move the pixels from one target mask to another ‘morphing’ the intermediate pixels. It will require the Reshape effect applied to both the source and destination footage of the morph and a crossfade (animating the opacities) between them.

    All in all it’s a bit complicated and doesn’t work great.

    Another solution is RE:Vision Effect’s RE:Flex. Which is easier to use and provides better results. I will say that it takes some time to get used to the way that it works, but once you do it’s fairly simple.

    Darby Edelen
    Designer
    Left Coast Digital
    Santa Cruz, CA

  • Lorraine Starr

    September 16, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    there is a great tutorial on the reshape tool
    https://library.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/morph.php
    if u cant get the plug in

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