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I think that’s just how RSMB works, cause it can’t tell which pixels are actually moving underneath what..
I think the way to go would be to mask out the overlaying stucture.. using the object buffer and apply RSMB to a separate layer underneath.
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I finally got it sorted out – page 8 in the quickstart PDF for r11.5
Basically it doesn’t work like in Maya for example.
With an object thats axis has been rotated:
Switch to World orientation and lock the X and Z axis (for example), now click OUTSIDE the object and drag. The object will move only in the world Y axis, ie up.
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Unfortunately I don’t understand what you want to achieve. Could you show some images of what you have and want to achieve?
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Just like Dave says, play around – that’s the best way to find out.
A few tips though that might be hard to find on your own though:
Turning on the adjustment layer switch on a light will make that light only affect the layers underneath it.
Lights can also have a negative value – meaning they’ll project darkness!
In the material options you can switch the shadows to ON, OFF and ONLY by clicking on it.
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If I understand correctly all you want to do is have the same image layer with duplicated with the individual parts masked out?
What I’d to is duplicate the layer 3 times and delete the unwanted masks in the corresponding layers.
If there’s a lot of masks, I use the Separate_Masks_in_Layers script from https://www.crgreen.com/aescripts/ -
For now the only thing I can contribute with is two nulls and tie the start and end points of the Beam effect to either null.
That will only create a straight line.How to get the curve or if you could use these nulls to move vertex points in a mask, I don’t know, …yet!!
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Edit: Ah! By now I found your reply on h264 editing, which answers my query. I still leave my question here anyway ./edit
“HDV captured in its acquisition codec is a no-no in AE”
I did not know that – but then again I rarely use video.
So what does this actually mean? That I should capture HDV (which I presume uses a MPEG codec) output to something else, like a tiff sequence, before using it in After Effects?
Thanks!
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I can think of a few sollutions:
1. Animating or keyframing masks.
2. Use particular with a custom particle deformed with turbulent displace.
3. cc Mr Mercury, although I’ve hardly used the effect. As far as I know it has this kind of meta ball effect. -
“application that can re-invent video that’s been blocked by text.”
That made me think of re:vision effects’ re:fill plug (which I’ve never used..) I assume the holes left by the text would be too big to be filled in well though.