Hi and thanks for your reply! I did also try to light the demogorgons with a spot light. As much as I hate tinkering with AE’s god damn lights, because I often do’nt fully realize where the light is in the 3D space, I managed to get it right on top of one of the creatures. So lit it, but there were no shadows. I guess something isn’t working…

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Hi all 👋

I’m asking for some help about a project, for which I have a scene sitting on a couch, and on the coffee table in front of me, I’d like to place small demogorgons (from the Stranger Things show).

I haven’t tried the environment light, the use of HDRI for lighting/shadows, and the direct import of 3D models, since all this became possi…

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It’s not for a paid client. I had an idea for a personal project, to track the camera, isolate the astronaut and move him into Blender to put him in a spaceship corridor, walking towards a shuttle. But I didn’t have the time lately to finish that keying succesfully. I want to be able to handle more complex shots and cases, so I decided to take on…

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I did try including rotobrush, but it doesn’t do a good job here. There are tiny spaces between his legs that open and close, plus that brightness in the suit screws up with the rotobrush tracking I guess, so the tracking is ok in one moment, and the next it mixes up a lot, I can’t control it. If it isn’t doable with a technique using the settings…

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Hello,

I’ve been working with After Effects for some time and I’ve done keying, but I have a project where I’d like to use this footage from Action VFX.

I think I managed to get a decent key on the upper part, but
I just can’t seem to get it right when trying to separate the feet and
the shadow. What would the approach be for that part? As you can…

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Hi John and thanks for joining the post.

I tried, but the result wasn’t very different:

Hi people,

I’m working on a little something that requires a sky replacement. I’ve done 2 sky replacements in the past successfully, but I’m facing some issues with this shot, so maybe the methods I try aren’t the most appropriate, I don’t know. I’m uploading a screen recording video that will show all the details and issues, which are:

1 – I…

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Hey Walter,

Ahh, you’re right, I was so silly not to think about this. I also didn’t quite accurately do the screenshot, because my pre-comped layer that consists of an image background and a rotoscoped video (from a green screen) was turned to a 3D layer, but as you say, it has no depth, as it’s not really 3D. I did open another project that I…

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Hi guys,

I’d like to ask a question related to After Effects’ camera view options. Besides the Active Camera which is by default, I sometimes use the other options like Top view to be able to see the position of the lights and other elements. The problem is I’ve had cases where I switch to another view, and I get a preview with an actual picture…

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Hey, I found out another way to create a black-white matte copy – by using the Boris FX’s Sapphire Tint effect. I then used other effects such as levels, key light, advanced spill suppressor, simple choker, and set the copy comp as a luma matte to cut out the object. However, I have grey residues that I just can’t remove. I’m uploading a screen…

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Hi Andy,

Thank you for joining the thread. I tried to do what you said, but didn’t end up with a black and white matte on the pre comp. Most likely I’m doing something wrong. I duplicated the clip and added Set Channels, then selected the duplicated clips as the source for the red channel. Then I duplicated again and selected the 3rd clip as source…

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Unfortunately, color correcting didn’t help that much either. I did bring more saturation and lightness to the shot. It also introduced more brightness to the subject, but I didn’t change his colors. I can’t remove the shadows on the green screen that much in the HSL section, because that starts eating away the shadows of the subject too. Then,…

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Hi Tom,

Thank you for this detailed input! I’ll try to follow the workaround you suggest and I’ll update on this.

I usually use AE for all visual effects-related tasks, and use Premiere for plain video/sound editing and color grading. I know that green screen keying is best done in Nuke, but after spending 1.5 years in AE doing compositing and…

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Hi folks.

I’m currently doing a composite using one of Action VFX’s free green screen shots (an astronaut walking). I’m still in the beginning of the project, but I’m facing a problem with the green screen keying. When I keyed it out, the space suit had some transparency, probably because it is very bright and it eats away its pixels too. I…

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Thank you so much, Walter! Now everything was imported just fine. Actually, I never looked into this, because the archive I downloaded had a separate folder for MAC OS, but I now see there are the same files in both folders.

Hi Hector,

Thank you for joining the thread. I watched this tutorial a few days ago. I’ve basically watched all tutorials on Youtube (at least I think I have) on working with exr files in AE, but haven’t seen something that reflects on difficulties with the import of such an exr sequence. I also think that it wouldn’t make sense to convert these…

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Hi folks,

I’m having some trouble with using a EXR file sequence in AE. I have fair experience with AE, but haven’t had much experience using 3D designs in my compositing until now.

I want to add a lightning bolt striking an abandoned house, creating a small explosion with residual fire on the window frame. I wanted to use an EXR sequence… Read more