• Adobe After Effects

  set matte trouble

  Posted by Caspar Stracke on May 21, 2021 at 10:26 pm

  Dear tweaking community.
  I am going backwards! 12 years ago I learned in this amazing forum how to use set matte by Ted Jelescu, the Romanian senior VFX artist (see below) This beautiful effect does not work anymore for some reason in my not-so-current version (CC 2017,;AE 14.02).

  Looked for tutorials, there everybody uses shape masks and they work fine. But if you use a video layer (with Hi contrast bw content) it doesnt do the job. Is it the codec? I used the “Animation” codec for this alfa layer…nada). Any help greatly appreciated.

  “Can I apply an alpha mask (or better an independent layer in ho contrast black &white) on two layers simultaneously?”
  apply to both layers:Filter- Channel- Set Matte- select the layer for the alpha, check the “invert” option on one of the layers.

  Difference – or Image Lounge and Composite Wizard had plug-ins like that if I remember well.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
  Bucharest, Romania

  Caspar Stracke replied 5 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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