[Adrianna Merlucci]

I’ve been trying to figure this out fo a bit (doesn’t help that AE is deciding to run reeeeaally slowly), but what does the fractal noise do? I might have the project set up wrong, but it seems to simply be a background until all the photos are put into place…?

[Adrianna Merlucci]

A friend is doing a neurological experiment and needs to note time down to the millisecond.

[Adrianna Merlucci]

Now AE freezes up anytime I try to apply the mask. I only have 28 vertices…should I try to get it down from that? Do you think that is the problem?

[Adrianna Merlucci]

I couldn’t export wmv files…it may have also been the version of flip4mac i had. I was on the flip4mac forum and people were reporting issues…

[Adrianna Merlucci]

I had problems with flip4mac when I downloaded 7.4 – any word on if this issue has been fixed?

[Adrianna Merlucci]

Hey Steve, no need to apologize- you have helped me a ton!

I did scrap the idea of drawing the mask on a seperate layer on my own – it was getting to annoying to keep copying the trackers to the .mov file. Anyway, I was just wondering why its recommended to draw the mask on the solid instead of directly on the footage itself?

As for the roto and the tracking: this method seems to work okay. The applied mask isnt perfect so I have been adjusting points (only about 4 compared with over 20) manually each frame. Do you have any tips on how to draw the original mask so that I won’t run into trouble later with the tracked points? It seems that making curves is troublesome but I don’t think its too avoidable when I am trying to draw a mask on a person…

[Adrianna Merlucci]

Thanks Steve, that worked perfectly…now for the motion track. From what I gathered here and elsewhere is this what I am supposed to do (i copied an pasted some of this from the original thread i linked to in my initial post):

1. make the mask on the first frame

2. Select the layer with the Mask (the solid), File>Run Script>RotAE.jsx. (this is from the link i posted in my initial post – the roto script)

2. then select the Mask again, and in the control panel that popped up, hit “Apply Tracker”

3. run the motion track

4. select the Tracker 1 and also select the Mask, then up in the Script’s Control panel, click ” Apply Mask”

Thanks!

[Adrianna Merlucci]

Thanks for responding.

I’m still a bit confused as to the concept of masking a solid…? I don’t see how it will “knock out” the background.

Do you think you could give step by step directions? Sorry to be a pain.

Thanks again!

[Adrianna Merlucci]

Ok i had someone save it as version 4 and email it to me. When I opened from my home computer it asked for another file…?

I’ll try version 3?

[Adrianna Merlucci]

Yes, but what version? And then how do I actually open the sequence? Just double-click the XML file?