Peter O'connell
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You need to download the blackmagic quicktime codec I think.
Pete -
Hi Mylenium, thanks for the info. If I am not mistaken there is an equivalent in after effects more or less to combustions gmask file format. You can save a mask as an effects preset, keyframes and all in AE. It is saved as an ffx file. So basically I was looking for and ffx to gmask converter. Oh well
Thanks
Pete -
The gamma should usually be set to 1.8 for macs and 2.2 for PCs if I am not mistaken.
Good luck
Pete -
Hi Jeremiah, elin can be a bit complicated. I had to read the PDF manual 3 times to get it straight. Even if you don’t use all of the more complicated aspects of elin I, just using its logtovid effect gets better results than AE’s channel>cineon converter>logtolin effect in my opinion.
Complicated eh
Pete -
Hi Jeremiah, my advice would be to use the elin plugin from the orphanage.
Good luck
Pete -
Ok I’ll explain in a little more detail. If I key out a background from a lousy green screen or if I am pulling a luma key, I often get an alpha channel that isn’t as black and white as I would like it. I would rather not use levels etc… in many situations because often if I am happy with the matte in a certain portion, I don’t want the levels adjustment to affect that area, only the problem area. What I am able to do in photoshop and combustion is paint on the gray areas of the alpha channel dodging the light grays to white and burning the dark grays to black. In photoshop for example, if you create a so-so alpha using calculations you can clean it up in this way by selecting the alpha channel only and painting on it with the brush set to the burn and dodge for darks and lights respectively. After effects offers this ability in theory because when I have the brush tool selected, I can choose from many blending modes for my brush, only they all seem to be applying as normal not as the blending mode to which they are assigned. Maybe it’s a bug or am I just missing something?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Pete -
Isn’t that 350 gigabytes? yowza
I wouldn’t recommend importing more than a couple hundred frames at a time. you’ll run out of ram fast. Each frame is about 12 megabytes.
good luck
Pete -
OK guys thanks for the info.
Bye
Pete -
Try this, select your layer and press command + d to copy it. Remove all the keyframes from the new layer. Alt click the opacity of the new layer to create an expression for opacity. The expression should look (except for the layer name) like this:
thisComp.layer(“theOtherLayersName”).opacity * -1 +100
Turn off the visibility of the original layer.
That should do the trick.
Good luck
Pete -
Try this, select your layer and press command + d to copy it. Remove all the keyframes from the new layer. Alt click the opacity of the new layer to create an expression for opacity. The expression should look (except for the layer name) like this:
thisComp.layer(“theOtherLayersName”).opacity * -1 +100
Turn off the visibility of the original layer.
That should do the trick.
Good luck
Pete