[Bud Angelotti]

Just a follow up to tell how I got this to work.
Added an adjustment layer, scaled it to 200% and parented it to the underlying “space ship” .
Added the 4 “headlites” to the adjustment layer and tracked them to the underlying spaceship video which has very limited motion, so there was not much tracking.
No, we can move the spaceship wherever we want, scale it as needed, and the headlights stay with it and fill the screen if we scale in to the spaceship.
Maybe this will help someone else down the road.

Cheers!
Bud

[Bud Angelotti]

Will do.
Thanks Walter.

[Bud Angelotti]

“When you put that spaceship into the really big comp, did you also make the layer with the lights really big, too?”
No I did not. Thats the problem. The layer(spaceship) gets smaller, relative to the other layers in the shot.
Avid is my friend as long as I don’t stack 6 or 8 layers with lots of effects nested and so forth. I’m old school. I used to shave in the AM, take my razor to work and slice film.
Still, I have a feeling I’m missing something really simple & should be able to do this in AE.
Cheers!

[Bud Angelotti]

Does not work. This shot has many layers and is supposed to go to the Avid as one shot. What I’ll do is animate the layers as needed WITHOUT the light rays, then render it out as 2 layers, the “spaceship” and all layers below, then the layers above, and use lights in Avid or Boris.
Thanks for trying Dave, wil get it to look good somehow.
Cheers!

[Bud Angelotti]

Thanks Dave,
I’ll let you know how it works out.

Bud

[Bud Angelotti]

HMMM – Thanks Dave- Can a larger comp go into a smaller comp? I guess we’ll find out. How about applying the lights to a really large null object or a really large transparent solid layer?
Thanks again in advance
Bud