John Dickinson
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Tinderbox 3 from The Foundry has an effect called “bad tv” which is perfect for this kind of thing.
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I’m with you now. How about selecting the layer, precomposing using “Leave all attributes”, then moving the layer up in the precomp…
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Okay here’s what you do:
Choose Luma matte for the bird layer.
Create a new solid (LAYER > NEW > SOLID) and give it a color other than black or white.
Place the solid at the bottom of the layer stack.
Duplicate the Pier Struts layer and put it at the top of the stack.
Set the Pier Struts blend mode to multiply.You’ll need to crush the blacks on your pier struts layer also because you can still see the bird layer through the poles if you don’t.
You could also forget the track matte step altogether and just put the pier layer above the bird layer and set it’s blend mode to Multiply. You’ll still need to crush the blacks though.
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can you email me the file so I can check it out? john.dickinson@foxtel.com.au
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In the User Interface Colors panel there is a check box for “Affects Pasteboard Color”.
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Does your pole file have an alpha channel?
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Use the poles as a luma matte. Put the poles layer above the bird layer and from the Trk Matte popup menu for the bird layer click Luma Matte “poles” (or whatever the layer’s name is). Now the bird will move “behind” the poles.
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In the timeline select the top mask in the stack then Shift click the bottom mask to select all the masks. Press Command (mac) or Control (pc) T to get the Free Transform box around all of the selected masks. Now you can move them, scale them and rotate them as one. When you’ve finished press Enter or Return to accept the adjustments.
John Dickinson
Motionworks
https://www.motionworks.com.au