Jason Milligan
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Take a look at your mesh for the object.
Modifying the number of triangles and/or the expansion can solve this problem.
You may have to reapply the pins although to get the mesh to update. -
Do you have multiprocessing enabled?
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Have you tried installing Perian?
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My advice is take a few large photos of the individual polaroids. Take them into Photoshop or AE and mask out the background. It’ll be easy, they are rectangles. Then, in AE, you can build your scene however you see fit. You can also precomp each polaroid and place the moving video inside the precomp. Turn those comps into 3D layers and you can manipulate them however you want without struggling to match perspective.
I think you may have a harder time pulling a key than just creating your own masks.
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I found this on the Adobe website:
“The Create Outlines menu command in versions of After Effects previous to After Effects CS3 created masks on a solid layer instead of creating shapes. To achieve the same result in After Effects CS3, you can run a script to convert the shapes created by the Create Outlines command to masks on a solid layer. The script is available on Jeff Almasol’s website: http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_jeffshapestomasks.”
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Nice, Dave.
That’s pretty clever. -
I would recommend working at your final pixel dimensions at a lower resolution (third quality would give you what you want) instead of this approach. You are making things much more difficult for yourself.
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What are you trying to achieve precisely?
It’s quite likely you can get the effect you want by faking it.
Unfortunately, we can’t offer recommendations if we don’t know more about your specific project. There are a number of ways to approach this depending on what you are going for. -
You could use the layers with the masks as a track matte.
Otherwise, add as many masks to the new layer as the previous layer has. Select the mask properties per mask and copy and paste. I don’t know of any faster method.