[Peter O’connell]

Hi, why not just precompose?
Pete

[Peter O’connell]

Hi, try the openEXR plugin from fnordware. That should work fine for what you need.
Pete

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[Peter O’connell]

Hi,you can drag one project into another project’s project panel.
Pete

[Peter O’connell]

Hi I think CC Powerpin will do what you are looking for.
Pete

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[Peter O’connell]

Hi I think this has to do with the fact that all points on the plane are not equidistant from the camera (look at the top view to get an idea of what I mean).
As far as a workaround, couldn’t you pull out the handles for the rotation in the graph editor (for the keyframes at the beginning and end) until they sync up at 25% and 75% as well?

Pete

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[Peter O’connell]

Hi, you can precomp everything (set the stabilized plate to ‘Guide Layer’ before precomposing) ,then make a few expressions between the flattened comp with your elements and the stabilized footage’s keyframes. Here is the basic gist of the expressions you need:
comped element’s Position = stabilized plate’s Anchor Point
comped element’s Anchor Point = stabilized plate’s Position
comped element’s Rotation = stabilized plate’s Rotation * -1

If you use these expressions, the comped elements will integrate perfectly with the original plate.
Pete

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[Peter O’connell]

Hi, is it a 1 point stabilization or 2 (ie. scale and rotation keyframes as well)?
Pete

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[Peter O’connell]

Hi you can hide all the onscreen controls with the shortcut shift+option+h. If you really need a shortcut to only show or hide one particular mask in AE you could turn on Hide Locked Masks in Layer>Mask, then make a jsx script like this:
app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Locked"));
(this is a very basic version of a possible script)

Save the script to your scripts folder and assign a keyboard shortcut to it by modifying the “Adobe After Effects 9.0 Shortcuts”. Change one of the lines that looks like this:
“ExecuteScriptMenuItem02” = “()”

Into this:
“ExecuteScriptMenuItem02” = “(your shortcut here)”

In this example the script would be the topmost script in the scripts pulldown menu.

You might also need a script to unlock all masks since the code above won’t toggle.
app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Unlock All Masks"));
You could then assign this script (make it the 2nd in the list) to another shortcut:
“ExecuteScriptMenuItem03” = “(your shortcut here)”

Make sure there aren’t any shortcut conflicts in the Shortcuts file.

Pete

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[Peter O’connell]

Thanks Dan, that did the trick.
Pete

[Peter O’connell]

Hi, if you make a script that applies that effect to the layer, you can then apply a keyboard shortcut to that script.
Pete

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