Greg Gesch
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IF you are saying that you enabled Layer Styles when you wrote, “(both the white background and the text layer have Drop Shadow and Drop Shadow enabled).” then this may be your problem.
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Hi. Most likely your icons are intersecting with your background. Reposition them closer to you (the z position – it allows you to use negative numbers ie; -25.) Alternately move your background further back and scale it up.
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Hi Arthur, I may be way, way off course but if an egg spins and is upright then it may look like it’s not moving at all. Just a thought.
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Hi Tim, first thought is blur and play with blending options. ?
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Hi Jay. The two things you need to look up are: Rotoscoping (cutting out an image) and Compositing (putting something into a video and making it look as if it belongs). It usually does take three layers, bottom the whole video, middle the greenscreen, and the top layer is the whole video rotoscoped where anything that passes in front of your greenscreened character is.
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Hi. I would make a mask around the flare, slightly feathered then add a copy of your footage underneath and offset its position slightly – so that the “hole” in the upper layer is filled with the near area. You may need to change the position of the lower layer during the shot, but hopefully not.
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Hi Daniel. By far the easiest way to do this is to key out your background. Have a green screen behind you (it only needs to be around your head and shoulders as you can mask out the rest of the shot – “garbage matt”). There are a lot of “‘greenscreen” tutorials around, look for ones using Keylight which comes with AE. Place your keyed footage on the layer above your other footage and then you can use Opacity to bring it into view when you want to see it. If you don’t use a greenscreen then you need to “mask” yourself out – which is a long and difficult process.
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Hi. It’s called RGB Split, there are quite a few tutorials on line.
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Again I’m a bit confused by exactly what you are doing. The only thing I can think to suggest is to duplicate your light, turn off the visibility of the original that is being used as the emitter then split the duplicate where/when it goes behind your 3D object and move the second (split) layer to below the 3D object layer.
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Ah, I see. From memory (I haven’t done this in a long time) you can turn off the eye icon on the Light layer and the light will disappear but still act as an emitter.