Joey Foreman
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Actually, this is the latest version:
It’s the best supplement to a manual I’ve ever read.
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Looks like a lot of rotowork involving masking a Levels adjustment layer. It seems like the streaks are just creating areas of increased brightness that need to have their levels adjusted to match the non-affected surrounding area. I’d recommend trying an overall midtone adjustment 1st, and if you can’t get a match go channel by channel. The levels settings may need to be animated as well. You’ll most likely need several masks, appropriately feathered to blend.
Maybe someone else here can think of a way to “harvest” the streaked areas by means of a high-contrast matte, to obviate or at least minimize the need for rotoscoping. That’s probably a long shot.
I’m putting my money on frame-by-frame adjustments. Hope your shot’s not too long, and good luck. AE doesn’t have burn and dodge tools, but I’m sure there’s a way to hack the paint brush to work like those by adjusting the blend mode. Or you could export the clip as a photoshop sequence and burn frame by frame in Photoshop. -
Cut the effect from the layer, resize it, then Paste the effect back in.
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Hamid, please read this:
https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Motion-Graphics-Effects-CD-ROM/dp/0879306068
Tutorials will be no good for you until you understand the basics.
Random experimentation and question after question about the most rudimentary tools and techniques will get you nowhere fast.
It seems like you want to understand AE, but you’re going about it backwards.
Best of luck.
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Emily, don’t scale the precomp, scale the layer(s) inside the precomp. Double click your precomp to gain access to the comp containing the layer(s) that make it up. Then scale it/them. I’m sure you probably know not to go past 100%. If you want you can lock the window for your primary comp first, so that you can see your results as you scale, or set up a two-window view.
If the layers in your precomp were all vector based imagery, you could scale the precomp with the Continuously Rasterize box ticked.
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No, not just anyone could make that tutorial.
I googled “tutorial text into particles” and found this.
https://3rdmartini.com/tutorials/after_effects/dust/
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I found this by googling “after effects training los angeles.”
https://www.ledet.com/adobe/aftereffects/
Pretty pricey. But not as pricey as U.S.C. or U.C.L.A., I’m sure.
And this.
https://www.lodestone.com/training/cities/losangeles_aftereffects_training.cfm
You could also google the above but add “one-on-one”, “tutoring”, etc.
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You’re welcome, Patrick. In my last post I mistakenly wrote that you could move the nested hi-res comp around with the pan tool. Actually you just drag it around with the Selection tool, animating its position, and generating a motion curve, the timing of which you can tweak to taste in the comp window and timeline, or with the Graph Editor.
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You could just Cut the mask, resize the layer, and Paste it back.
If you’ve keyframed the mask, select all the keyframes, Cut those, resize the layer, and Paste em back. -
Yes, you can track multiple points on a single layer, and attach a different Motion Target layer to each track point.