[Peter O’connell]

Hi try rendering out with your alpha set to straight or possibly premultiplied with black.
That might do the trick
Pete

Friday; April 14, 2006
1:18 AM

[Peter O’connell]

A few more tips.
Never roto on the layer of the footage itself.
Create a solid above the layer and roto on that, with the visibility turned off.
Lock the layer with the footage on it. This way there is no way to accidentally move the position of a layer
Load the comp into ram preview.
Now you can roto and scrub the timeline superfast, and your ram preview never dissapears.
Also consider tracking either by hand roughly or with the tracker the item that needs to be rotoed,
then create an expression between the position of the rotoed layer and the position of the (stabilized)
footage. Then you can roto without using the hand tool.
Roto is best done in a dedicated roto comp and the resulting mask then saved out as an ffx. file to be inmported into in the main comp.

Pete

I am roto man

Friday; April 14, 2006
1:06 AM

[Peter O’connell]

A few more tips.
Never roto on the layer of the footage itself.
Create a solid above the layer and roto on that, with the visibility turned off.
Lock the layer with the footage on it. This way there is no way to accidentally move the position of a layer
Load the comp into ram preview.
Now you can roto and scrub the timeline superfast, and your ram preview never dissapears.
Also consider tracking either by hand roughly or with the tracker the item that needs to be rotoed,
then create an expression between the position of the rotoed layer and the position of the (stabilized)
footage. Then you can roto without using the hand tool.
Roto is best done in a dedicated roto comp and the resulting mask then saved out as an ffx. file to be inmported into in the main comp.

Pete

I am roto man

Friday; April 14, 2006
1:06 AM

[Peter O’connell]

That’s great, thanks very much.
Pete
Sunday; April 9, 2006
9:16 PM

[Peter O’connell]

You can try calculations too
Pete

[Peter O’connell]

I don’t know of a tutorial but the best colour corrector I know of for AE is the DFT colour correct plugin. Also Fnordware Powerpicker comes in handy for certain situations.
Pete

[Peter O’connell]

I don’t know of a tutorial but the best colour corrector I know of for AE is the DFT colour correct plugin. Also Fnordware Powerpicker comes in handy for certain situations.
Pete

[Peter O’connell]

AE roto has one thing going for it which is that you can switch between frames farter than in other application by loading the frames you are working on into ram preview. The speed increase because of this makes up for its shortcomings in most cases.
If you camera is locked off you don’t need to roto much to get 2 of you in the scene. Just do a split screen
Pete

[Peter O’connell]

primatte is good

[Peter O’connell]

If you really need circles of confusion then stick with lenscare. It is a tad unstable at times but it looks pretty good.
Pete