[Renee Matthews]

Thank you for the response. I’m trying to make it so what I’m seeing on my screen is actual size.

So if I pulled up the dimensions of a quarter in Photoshop, I could put a quarter on the display/monitor and it would be exactly the same size.

I’m pretty sure Adobe has a way of letting you set this based on your resolution and pixels but I’m not sure how!

[Renee Matthews]

Thank you for the responses, I am checking out Mocha right now…

[Renee Matthews]

Was just about to respond with an update – took me a while to figure out it needs to be in a composition, and that I have to manually go in and change the length of it to match the clip…

Thank you 😀

[Renee Matthews]

Hey –

Not that I’m that skilled, but I think you’re right. It would take way longer to set the track points and track, etc than to do it manually. I think of the whole clip or a long portion of it had one thing to track then that would be worth it but not for the quick blurs, etc…

I looked in your profile and couldn’t find your email. I believe mine is at the bottom of the first post in this thread. I did notice you’re from Seattle? I’m over in Redmond!

[Renee Matthews]

Thanks again for the response. I’m in the middle of doing some blurring right now and it seems to be going pretty fast. I actually think I could do it manually. I haven’t really got to any tough parts, but we’ll see.

With the scaling – I realized that I don’t need to do it every frame and that if I just go to the very last frame of where the object is at and scale it down there, it will scale correctly by itself inbetween the keyframes (assuming it’s not a long section that needs to be blurred (or I’ll need more keyframes).

Anyways, I will report back! Thank you!

[Renee Matthews]

Thank you so much for the detailed response, I really appreciate it!

I can see what you’re getting at here and it’s a lot easier to understand.

My AE looks a little different from yours – my masks say “Mask Path” instead of “Mask Shape”.

It took me forever to realize I needed to click and drag the top right square (node) in my masks to move them. I think it’s because I was using the rectangular tool. When I used the pen tool then yeah, I need to drag and select all of the nodes before moving.

I see what you’re getting at with keyframing. Every 10 frames is/would going to take eons (especially at 60fps)! I was toying around with it and it actually works great/smoothly even when keyframing in seconds instead of frames.

The pain in the a** is the scaling and rotation. That makes it take even longer.

I’d still like to know how to apply tracking data to the masks. I think doing it manually will be more efficient and make more sense on certain parts, but on the parts with a ton of zooming in and out and movement, I feel like the tracker could go through that a lot easier and quicker…

Anyways – ! I appreciate your help greatly. If you want to show me how to apply the tracker to the masks, I’d be more than happy to PayPal you $50 – $100 today – just name your price! Everyone has a price 😀

You’ve been a great help

[Renee Matthews]

Forgot to add I googled mask nodes related keywords and found a thread from you from over a year ago, lol.

[Renee Matthews]

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my problems!

I’m still having problem, though 🙁

I would really love to pay you like $50 – $100 to make a quick vid tutorial on doing this.

The problems I’m having are the same:

1. The tracker only let’s me select “Adjustment Layer 1”. It doesn’t matter how many masks I have, I still don’t see where/how I can link up the tracker to each mask.

2. I tried (before I posted my last thread) selecting a mask under the Adjustment Layer in the left panel. The adjustment layer is still highlighted regardless of what mask I click on. It still moved the entire layer…

3. I don’t know what mask nodes are 🙁

4. The only thing I see in the timeline are the two “bars” – the purple for the new layer and brown for the sequence I imported. Inbetween them are white … “things” that seem to correlate to the masks but highlight them the same as clicking them in the panel, still with the adjustment layer highlighted.

Where can we go from here? Can you smell my money yet?

[Renee Matthews]

I definitely understand what you’re saying – it’s repetitive work and I’m more than okay with doing hours of work assuming I know what I’m doing.

I can’t repeat the process of a one blur, one scene tutorial because there’s missing steps. I don’t know how to match up tracking data to each mask. Having multiple masks messes up the entire video. Etc – everything I covered in my last post about getting stuck isn’t covered in the one blur, one scene tutorials and isn’t capable of just repeating over again…

[Renee Matthews]

I went through the video tutorial. I thought it was very informative but it’s exactly like all the other tutorials that I went through. It only covers one object, in one scene.

I am more than happy to pay good money to someone who wants to show me how to do this. It would take much less time to simply to a camtasia recording or something than to have someone do this to hours of footage. I’d also learn how to do it myself…

Here’s what I’m doing that’s getting me stuck:

1. Import the sequence, drag to timeline
2. Layer > New > Adjustment Layer
3. On first frame, use the rectangular tool to cover 3 objects that need to be blurred which creates the 3 masks.
4. Add the guassian blur to my liking

5. (Problem). I have to select the original sequence to start tracking. Ok, so I track one of the objects. The only thing I can apply it to is “Adjustment Layer 1”. So, I do that. Well, that moves every single one of the masks I just created. So, skipping back to the first frame, my masks are now on completely different parts, not in the position they should be.

So, back to my original concern – applying the tracking data to each individual mask, instead of the entire adjustment layer?

Lastly, my other problem is removing masks when they’re not blurring anything. I know someone said to just turn down the opacity all the way, but where? I turn down the opacity and it does that for every part of the video for that mask…

Anyways, I don’t expect anyone to hold my hand for free and come up with a highly detailed lengthy step by step response on how to do this, but I’d be more than happy to generously pay to someone who does… I’ll make it worth your time!