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Track Mattes and transparency
Where can I find some tutorials about track mattes and masks and transparency?
But they must be simple, cause I don’t know too much about them…
I found some tutorials about the track mattes, but they were containing expressions, and other harder stuffs… -
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Those topics are covered in great detail in Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects Vol. 1 by Trish and Chris Meyer. All the lessons have aep files to work with, so you get hands on training. The book covers AE 6.5 but unless you are a beginner in AE 7 it will give you all the info you need. There are 3 volumes to this title and they are well worth the investment if you want to learn AE in a thorough way.
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Also, Volume 2 has a whole chapter explaining alphas that will give you a more complete picture of how transparency works in AE, and the differences between luma mattes, alpha mattes, stencils, etc. Most of the tutorials you will find don’t cover the basics.
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