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workflow : 2 panels to see changes from 1 effect
Hi,
I’m currently learning Keylight, and it seems it’s possible to open 2 composition windows side by side, and to see 1 view in the 1st one, and another view in the 2nd one :
for instance, it should be possible to choose , from the View Menu of the effect :
– “Source” for the 1st comp. windows, and
– “Screen Matte” for the 2nd one.There’s no problem to open 2 windows side by side, but when I change the View in the View Menu of the effect, both windows change, and there is no way (so far) to compare one view and another side by side … :-/
Do anybody know how to do it ?
Thank you ! 🙂
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4 Replies
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Hmm, i don’t think you actually can do this – it would certainly be handy, but having the same plugin/effect output different values to two viewers doesn’t really work in the AE workflow… it would have to be something that was built into keylight, but as far as I know it isn’t.
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I read it is possible in the Keylight User guide, but there are no details, as though it was not due to Keylight, but rather a normal functionnality of AE.
I didn’t find anything about that in the Help of AE, but there must be a means…
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Actually Dave, I may be wrong (and often am!) but I don’t think the technique mentioned in that thread is applicable in this situation.
The issue is that the same plugin is required to have DIFFERENT settings in the two comps, rather than trying to see the SAME change, simply at a different point in time, in the same comp.So you could make a DUPLICATE of the whole comp and have one version of Keylight set to Source (or whatever Keylight display option you want) and have one with the Screen Matte, but this would mean that when you update the settings, you’d have to update both (or link the values of one to the other with an expression, which would be too fiddly, in my opinion).
Lucia, I had a quick skim through the user guide and couldn’t find anything about having multiple display modes at once… it mentions “switching to Status view” which to me suggests that you swap between them, not implying that you can have both at once. Unfortunately, I really don’t think you can do it, at least not without a workaround.
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Thank you Stuart, you wrote exactly what I was about to answer.
I read (Keylight User guide p 24) that “It can also be useful to view the Status and Source side by side as shown in Figure 14 so that you can repeatedly pick from one while viewing the result in the other window.”But in fact, it seems the trick here is to open a footage window next to the Comp window.
That’s great if you want to compare a “status” or a “final result” to the source. But it means also the trick is useful only for the “Source” view.Thank you for your answers. And if you have other ideas, I’m always interested. 😉
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