[Antony Buonomo]

Highlight the mask in your timeline, then (on a Mac) cmd-T, this puts the transform box around your mask. Then use keyboard shortcuts (direction arrows/plus Shift) – also use the Mask Expansion parameter to make your mask grow from ‘nothing’.

[Antony Buonomo]

ANTONY also wants a piece of this particular pie.
ANTONY can offer small, smooth pebbles of advice to SPACEMAN – in return he asks nothing but the unspoken respect amongst MEN OF DESIGN.
ANTONY has just finished a PAL project for the BBC. 720×576 Widescreen pixels. ANTONY warns that SPACEMAN gets clear guidance about what safe-areas his employers desire. ANTONY speaks through unspent, bitter tears.

[Antony Buonomo]

ANTONY also wants a piece of this particular pie.
ANTONY can offer small, smooth pebbles of advice to SPACEMAN – in return he asks nothing but the unspoken respect amongst MEN OF DESIGN.
ANTONY has just finished a PAL project for the BBC. 720×576 Widescreen pixels. ANTONY warns that SPACEMAN gets clear guidance about what safe-areas his employers desire. ANTONY speaks through unspent, bitter tears.

[Antony Buonomo]

Have you checked that in your Render Settings>Effects: it says Current Settings. This drove me mad once.

[Antony Buonomo]

try pre-comping each layer and then the opacity transition on these layers

[Antony Buonomo]

I got this from Adobe when I signed up to their Expert Technical support:

“Before I get into a workflow that will work, let me step back to the core of the problem- AE 6.5 has a bug: When you have a nested 3D layer with the Continuously Rasterize switch turned on, if masks are applied in both the master and child comps, the masks will not render properly. I confirmed that this bug has been fixed in AE7, and the customer’s project works as expected.

To get round the problem the customer doesn’t need to use nested layers. What he should be using is a track matte layer with the animated masks. Specifically, here’s how to do it:.. ”

[Antony Buonomo]

Thanks, but it’s weird… I went to the Foundry website and found only the Shake Keylight manual.

[Antony Buonomo]

Thanks, ironic actually because the job is for the BBC. Just hope it’s what I need.

A

[Antony Buonomo]

Hi Justin, thanks for your offer.

It is a continent in. 3DS and I want to select and modify the surface face of the block. Yet Zax Invig won’t let me select this face.

Any ideas?

A

[Antony Buonomo]

Steve

That’s a flattering request! But I’m not sure I’m to it, however I would love to have a go, so maybe if someone from the COW would point out the basics I’d be happy to try.

Antony