[Dino Muhic]

Why not just use selfmade masks (solids) and feather them? Use a lightish blue or white as color and turn the blend mode to screen or add. Then lower the opacity by taste.
Alternatively you can try to feather them only on one side and make the other one sharp but with a gradient.
Search vor glass button tutorials for Photoshop. It’s basically the same thing.

or did I understand you wrong?
If so, I’m sorry.

I wouldn’t track it, if the quality of the video is not very good, since you always get some noise and artifacts.

[Dino Muhic]

I just rewatched the tutorial. You mean the part at about 17 minutes?
Which After Effects Version are you using? This tutorial was done with AE 7.0.
In 7.0 it is called Mask Shape, in CS3/4 it’s called Mask Path but it’s the same like I said.

If you use CS3/CS4 make sure you did create a solid and add the mask and did not create a shape layer instead
When selecting the adjustment layer hit M twice to reveal the mask properties. The first propertie is what you are searching for.

Cheers

[Dino Muhic]

I’m not sure what you mean, but I think Mask Path and Mask Shape should be the same (different After Effect version?)

By the way: there’s a Video Copilot forum as well on creativecow.net 😉

Cheers

[Dino Muhic]

I also found these really great videos from Felix & Paul:

https://www.felixandpaul.com/pages/VideosEng.html

It was exactly what I was searching for.
Great inspiration. Check them out!

[Dino Muhic]

Thanks alot guys! I knew the Converse video before but the rest was new for me.

If you got more, feel free to post it!

Thanks

[Dino Muhic]

Thank you very much for your help. Both of you.

I’ll wait till next week and download the new version!
I was just using the demo anyway to try it out so I won’t bother you with e-mails since I didnt even buy it yet. The 3D plug-ins are exactly what I need so I wanted to try the demo before buying it, which means I can wait till next week.

Just be sure to update the demo as well. 😉

Thanks!

[Dino Muhic]

No problem. Thanks for the help.
I just saw that NVidia has released a new driver. The one I got was from February. I’ll update the driver and report again.
If you need more specs about the system just say it.

Cheers,

Dino

[Dino Muhic]

Thanks guys,

well the stencil would affect all layers below which is not what I want.

I’ll try to explain it different.
Imagine you have three layers in a huge comp (not being near each other in the hirarchy) and all of them need the same alpha matte.
What would you do?
My idea was to make one matte named “mastermask” (just a solid with masks) and then apply the “set matte” effect on the three layers and tell them to use the alpha channel of the mastermask as their alpha matte.
But to do this I need to pre-comp the mastermask layer.
But doing so would mean you have to switch between this pre-comp and the main comp everytime you want to animate the mastermask.

So what would you do?

[Dino Muhic]

Hi Thanks for your input!

It’s not the ideas, more the techniques I can use in front of the green screen.

Here are the lyrics

Rev your engines up
We roll ‘till chains are dropped
Trample through the stone
And scaffolds will be blown
Away

[Chorus]
Burst in a flame
(Internal fire breakin’ out)
Distort hardest frames
(Massive barrels fuel the ground)
Lash like a storm
(Impress a voltage on a fist)
And gash like a thorn
(We’re leavin’ nothing but a groan)

We heat, tanks‘re gonna steam
Obsessed with gasoline
Stamp the road-block down and
Dash on wheels through town

Shut your eyes, tanks ‘re gonna steam
Smell the reek, tanks ‘re gonna steam
Hear the groan, tanks ‘re gonna steam
Taste our rock, tanks ‘re gonna steam

[Dino Muhic]

Solved: You have to use the AE Menue “File -> Import -> Adobe Premiere Pro Project…” instead of dragging it in or double-clicking onto the project window like in CS3.

I leave it there if others get the same problem. If you don’t mind.

Sorry