Darby Edelen
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If you decide to use cross dissolving I highly recommend pre-composing the layers to be dissolved and using the Alpha Add blend mode. This avoids unintentional dimming in the middle of the dissolve, much like the Blend effect but easier in my opinion 🙂
Darby Edelen
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There should be a field in the Interpret Footage dialog that allows you to specify the number of times you’d like the footage to loop. This dialog is accessible in the context menu if you right click the footage in your project panel.
The other option is using Time Remapping and the loopOut(); expression. I’d recommend researching that before using it.
Darby Edelen
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Joseph already told you why this shot will be challenging but I thought I could add a few more thoughts.
The cloudy shot has much flatter lighting. No hard shadows as well as no bright spots. In addition it’s a much cooler looking shot. So the challenge is (at least) two fold:
1. Reduce local contrast. Brighten the darks and darken the brights. The easiest way to approach this would probably be the Shadows/Highlights effect.
2. Cool the colors. There are a lot of options for this one. I’d likely use Curves as it would allow me to further refine the contrast of the image as well as allowing me to reduce the Reds and Greens a bit. The Photo Filter effect or using a blue solid layer with blending modes would be good alternates.
You may also want to reduce the saturation with the Tint effect.
Darby Edelen
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Cool.
In the future an easy way to place a layer in the same position/orientation as another layer is to hold SHIFT while parenting the layer you want to move to the layer it is being moved to. This sets up a parent/child relationship where the child is moved to the position/orientation of the parent to start with.
You can then move the child as you like from there or un-parent the layer if need be.
Darby Edelen
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[Brett Hansen] “I feel as though I’m missing something very simple, as I don’t see how objects located at the same position, with the same scale, anchor point, orientation, and rotation could appear in completely different areas of the scene.”
Are any of the layers parented to another layer? The position of a child layer is relative to its parent. If you copy the position of a child and paste it to a layer that is not a child of the same parent then it will not be in the same position as the child layer.
Darby Edelen
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This happens because the selection is anti-aliased and alpha blending between the semi-transparent pixels (like those that result from anti-aliasing) does not resolve to a fully opaque pixel.
In After Effects you can use the ‘Alpha Add’ blend mode to fix problems like this but that’s not available in Photoshop.
The easy solution is to uncheck ‘anti-alias’ from the selection tool.
However, my recommendation would be to duplicate the full base layer and use a layer mask instead of using Layer Via Cut. If you save your selection you can use it for the layer mask. You can copy the layer mask to the lower base layer and invert it. To remove the anti-aliasing overlap issue you can then select the top layer’s layer mask and use Filter > Other > Maximum with a radius of 1. This will expand the mask by 1 pixel.
Darby Edelen
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Those answers work for keying. For suppression I recommend this:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/1027628
The 50/50 split on Red/Blue in the Channel Mixer is a good starting place. You can adjust as you see fit but try to keep the sum as close to 100 as possible.
Note: you’ll need to key and then suppress the green in that order 🙂
Darby Edelen
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Do the unprocessed/processed frames look different in Photoshop? Can you glean any other information from Photoshop (do the images have profiles embedded)?
What are the color profile settings for the footage items in After Effects?
Darby Edelen
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Blur & Sharpen > CC Vector Blur does this but you’ll need a way to define the curve. You might, for example, create a white/black matte. The transition between white/black would be the “line” along which CC Vector Blur will blur. Use this matte as the Vector Map for the effect. I believe you’ll also need to rotate the Blur 90° if you use the Natural mode.
Tweak the Ridge Smoothness and Map Softness as well as the Strength to adjust to your needs.
Darby Edelen
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Can you describe the problem you’re having or upload a photo? Did you make sure that Monochrome was checked in the Channel Mixer?
Darby Edelen