Brian Charles
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Yikes. I use AME to place markers in FLV’s for a video player I’ve built in Flash.
Is there now another workflow for this?
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[stig olsen] “Why is it behaving this way?”
After Effects defaults to performing calculations in a certain order.
Just like basic math there is an order to complex operations. In high school I was taught an acronym, BEDMAS as a mnemonic to remember the order. https://math.about.com/od/glossaryofterms/g/What-Is-Bedmas.htm
Operations in brackets are carried out first followed by the remaining operations.
After Effects behaves in a similar fashion. In general, for raster layers, Masks are calculated before Effects which are calculated before Transformations, you can use MET as an acronym to remember the order.
When layers are nested or Pre-Composed, its like placing brackets around any operations (masks, effects, transforms) for those layers, the operations are done before the next ones.
In your case the Mask is processed before the Corner Pin. Pre-Composing the layer with the Corner Pin then applying the mask to the Pre-Comp forces the Corner Pin to process before the Mask.
You might think of Pre-Composing as placing brackets around those operations.
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[stig olsen] “When using the pen tool and masking out the area I want it does not work that way. Other parts of the graphic dissapear instead. I think this has to do with the way I have moved the corners of my layer or something.
I have also tried to precompose the layer to see if I could mask a selected part without experiencing the same problem, but I dont.”If you are Corner Pinning a 3D layer, try pre-composing but move all attributes to the new comp. Then apply the mask.
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[Dave LaRonde] “We can’t hemp very much without good information.”
Dave, have you moved to Colorado?
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I note that the settings you posted state that “Actual CPU’s used = 0”.
Those setting are far to aggressive for the limited amount of RAM you have.
I agree with Mathew, don’t even bother with MP. Or choose setting that are more appropriate for your hardware.
Try setting the CPUs reserved for other Applications to 6 and the RAM allocation per background CPU to 2.
Here are settings from my laptop:
Also the footage you are using appears to be mp4, try an uncompressed frame accurate format rather than one with a long GOP. -
@ Kevin, I think I learned this method from you. Thanks.
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After inverting the logo you can use the free UnMult effect available from Red Giant or use these 2 effects Channel Combiner from Max RGB to Alpha and then Remove Color Matting.
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If you mean stop motion this preset and tutorial may help.
https://qubahq.com/2011/06/stop-motion-kit/
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In CC 2014 if I select QuickTimeH.264 is still listed as a Codec under Format Options.
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[Robert Kornstein] “It already does match, that’s what I was trying to say. The seam appears regardless.”
That’s odd, I don’t get the same result when the sides match. Here’s a rough test I did with an ai file that’s the same width as the composition.
