Mike Derk
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I just tried again, and it worked.
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I couldn’t get your movie to play. But there was no error message… maybe your bandwidth was exceeded?
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Thanks!
I had a feeling there was a way to do that (it’s so standard in Photoshop); now I know how.
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Hmmm… I’m guessing here, so bear with me.
Could you put light on the entire mask, and then “shape” it with an adjustment layer that has a gradient in it?
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My understanding of things that are that blown out is that there is no information for a filter to use — you can’t make something 100% white into anything else. Same with things that are 100% black. There’s just nothing there to adjust.
Cloning is good advice.
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Thanks guys.
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In “how to make vines grow” the Stroke effect is used. You’d have to design the mask and how the words appear, but since it only reveals what is below it, it will be the font you choose.
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To that I’d add: make sure the background is fairly clean (it’s not swirly wallpaper with a flower arrangement sitting on a desk next to a fountain…).
Oh, and I just had an idea (that I’ve never tried). If you have access to two identical cameras, and you can mount them side by side, they will move identically. One will just be a second “behind” so to speak. You’ll have “pre-tracked” poor-man’s motion control. You’ll probably have to futz with the color some, to get it to match perfectly, but you can plan ahead for that and use a grey-card.
Also, I’d watch out for the actor’s shadow in the 2nd camera if you do this. But you could probably keep that terrible wallpaper and the flowers.
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I think using the Null to parent the eyes is going to be the missing link.
I have seen the Demon Warp, and that’s basically what I did in my project, except I added the mask on to of the image (what would correspond to Andrew’s sunglasses). Only then did I realize that they were situated too high, so I’m getting a lot of white and not a lot of pupil. But it all tracks great. The right-place/wrong place thing is purely asthetic, but I still didn’t know how to fix it.
I’ll hold onto those expressions. This is week one for me with AE, so I’ve got some baby steps to take first.