[Andrew Kramer]

Will an adjustment layer work for your situation?

[Andrew Kramer]

Probably going to hand roto the hair with an adjustment layer, then using a combination of color correction tools like Hue and Sat with some curves may do the trick. However Black hair would be most difficult since there isn’t much data in the dark areas of video so lightening and coloring may look unnatural.

Andrew

[Andrew Kramer]

The best you can do is right click the layer and choose “create outline”.
It will create a duplicate layer with a mask for each piece…

[Andrew Kramer]

Great stuff Chris.

[Andrew Kramer]

Great stuff Chris.

[Andrew Kramer]

This was something I was going to put in the tutorial but I wanted to keep some focus…

However casting shadows with this method can be done fairly easy.

1. Turn on the cast shadow function for the “text” comp or you reflective comp
2. Duplicate the floor layer and put it directly under the “text” comp and above the Adjustment layer divider
3. Change the color to white and the transfer mode to “multipl”
4. Make Sure the Light “casts shadows” and the new white floor layer “accepts shadows” and your all set.

Basically by puttin the white layer under the text it renders with the text in 3D but because it is white the muliply transfer mode leaves the shadow.

The tricky part is getting the lighting to look right. Having a shadow and reflection in front may look busy or sloppy so you can duplicate a light and move it towards the camera and in front of the text layer casting the shadow back behind…

Here is a screenshot of my comp,
http://www.videocopilot.net/shadow.jpg

Great question. Don’t worry about long posts so long as they help you and other people. Personally I appreciate people getting interested.

Thanks,
Andrew

[Andrew Kramer]

This was something I was going to put in the tutorial but I wanted to keep some focus…

However casting shadows with this method can be done fairly easy.

1. Turn on the cast shadow function for the “text” comp or you reflective comp
2. Duplicate the floor layer and put it directly under the “text” comp and above the Adjustment layer divider
3. Change the color to white and the transfer mode to “multipl”
4. Make Sure the Light “casts shadows” and the new white floor layer “accepts shadows” and your all set.

Basically by puttin the white layer under the text it renders with the text in 3D but because it is white the muliply transfer mode leaves the shadow.

The tricky part is getting the lighting to look right. Having a shadow and reflection in front may look busy or sloppy so you can duplicate a light and move it towards the camera and in front of the text layer casting the shadow back behind…

Here is a screenshot of my comp,
http://www.videocopilot.net/shadow.jpg

Great question. Don’t worry about long posts so long as they help you and other people. Personally I appreciate people getting interested.

Thanks,
Andrew

[Andrew Kramer]

Catching the same fish in a fresh water lake seems very unlikely. But if I did hopefully he would be a couple pounds bigger then I would be happy. But having the same fish in every picture but with different clothes would seem a little fishy.

Jimmy,
Yes but there are consequences.

To do what you are suggesting, simply turn on the “continuous rasterize switch in the final comp, then inside the “text” comp make the 2 text layers 3D.
Now the way the effect is setup is based on raster effects (linear wipe, compound blur linked to static gradient), so in the final comp when you zoom into the text the blur and opacity fall-off will not stay relative to the size of the text when zoomed in.

So what you need to do is turn off the effects and add a feathered mask to the reflection text layer and match what the linear wipe was doing. You can’t really have the compound blur linked to the gradient map in a continuously rasterized comp and expect things to work correctly.

However, the opacity falloff is the most important thing and with a feathered mask, this is zoomable and scales relative to the text layer size.

When I get up i’ll re-read this and see if it makes any sens…

Cya guys,
Andrew

[Andrew Kramer]

Catching the same fish in a fresh water lake seems very unlikely. But if I did hopefully he would be a couple pounds bigger then I would be happy. But having the same fish in every picture but with different clothes would seem a little fishy.

Jimmy,
Yes but there are consequences.

To do what you are suggesting, simply turn on the “continuous rasterize switch in the final comp, then inside the “text” comp make the 2 text layers 3D.
Now the way the effect is setup is based on raster effects (linear wipe, compound blur linked to static gradient), so in the final comp when you zoom into the text the blur and opacity fall-off will not stay relative to the size of the text when zoomed in.

So what you need to do is turn off the effects and add a feathered mask to the reflection text layer and match what the linear wipe was doing. You can’t really have the compound blur linked to the gradient map in a continuously rasterized comp and expect things to work correctly.

However, the opacity falloff is the most important thing and with a feathered mask, this is zoomable and scales relative to the text layer size.

When I get up i’ll re-read this and see if it makes any sens…

Cya guys,
Andrew

[Andrew Kramer]

I thought there was a way to link those, sounds cool. Perhaps beyond my pick-whip mastery.

As for the fish, I hear Largemouth Bass are quite edible, but I bass fish for sport, so we let them go. As hard as it was.

However last monday, I went on a half day fishing trip off the coast of mexico and brought back a couple of 30 lb. Yellow tails, which were exceptional eats.
I have a great BBQ recipe if you’re interested 😉

Andrew