Arie Stavchansky
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Well, sub clipping really is just setting in an out points on the longer clips. When you double click on the “sub clip” footage asset in AE, are you looking at the fully zoomed out version of the time line in the preview window? Can you see any in and out points on the timeline at all?
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What about just making the stroke a mask (or track matte) to a layer that has the texture already applied to it? The stroke would probably need to be rendered in gray scale, and then used as a luma matte? Just a thought. . . give it a try 🙂
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Sure no problem. Glad you checked it out!
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Just wanted to chime in and show you a tutorial I put together for shooting organic stuff. I shot black ink running down a white wall, and used RE:Vision’s Shade / Shape to get the final rendered effect of water.
Here is the tutorial
https://www.stavchansky.net/blog.php?bID=20
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I think the “Covert to Outlines” command under the “Type” menu will help you out. Select your text object, hit that command, and then you have vector outlines of your type. You can copy and paste that path into AE on a solid or for a target parameter of an effect.
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You need to rotoscope (animate) a mask on the “photoshopped” poster image that follows the shape of the train as it passes it by. You can accomplish that by simple drawing a mask on the poster layer with your pen tool, turn on keyframing for that particular mask, then create keyframes along your timeline for the duration of the train passing by.
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It sounds like you want to apply the matte layer to both the text and the base layer, is that correct?
If so, then you need to pre-comp both the base layer and the text layer together. You have to multi-select the base layer and the text layer, then use the pre-comp command. After doing that, you would then apply the track matte to the pre-comped layer.
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>>>I’ve tried exporting back out in multiple HQ file types and it still looks bad.
The video will look very different in the viewport in Premiere regardless of how you import it. However, are you exporting with compression at all.
To playback a WMV properly, Premiere most likely is decompressing the file first. If you export to a compressed file format, you are likely going to see more artifacts. What is the subject matter of the footage? If it is a desktop screen cast, for example, scaling it down will produce noticeable artifacts no matter with or without compression.
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I’m not totally sure, but it looks like it might be an artifact that was left from your keying process. You may want to play around with the parameters for adjusting the screen matte view of your keyer. Were you using keylight that shipped with AE? You may just need to clean up the noise left by the key.
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