[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Creating precomps for each photo is a good setup and may be easier for some users to manage. Concentrate your efforts on making one photo looking good in its precomp and then parenting its movement to the filmstrip in the ‘final comp’.

Once you’ve nailed the look of a single photo, it’s then a simple matter of duplicating its composition and replacing the photo layer with another photo to create your second and subsequent photos.

In the ‘final comp’, simply animate the filmstrip to suit your needs. Then place the nested photo comp into the filmstrip before parenting it to the filmstrip. Remember to switch on Collapse Transformations for the nested comp so that the 3D texture effect comes through into the final comp.

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RoRK
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Zeke Camusio] ” I was expecting that I could then parent the null object to the layer where I have my drawing, but it doesn’t work. “

The parenting structure should be the other way around. Perhaps this is the cause of your issue?

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RoRK
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

I’m glad you’ve sorted it out – and in the most elegant manner too! BTW, the shortcut key should be CTRL+ALT+H.

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Darby’s likely got the math correct but my thoughts are that you could easily have duplicated the larger layer and then applied a track matte to delimit its effective size.

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

The 3D Cam Tracker doesn’t do anything to lights or shadows. These properties work as they should in AE, after a 3D Cam Tracking task. You may want to post a JPG of your issue to allow others more insight. Please include a screen cap of your layer’s Material section and your Light Options.

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RoRK
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

What are you intending to do with the grid or with the objects in the grid? There are other options to creating a grid.

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Such an effect is best done/initiated during production. During production, you should have a prop that is used as the table. This prop should be in a ‘key-friendly’ color. Height, size, perspective should of this prop should closely match the object you intend to insert in post.

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RoRK
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

What’s preventing you from applying effects?

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Is the clip on the right after you rendered it or is it a screen capture from the Comp Panel? And which file format/architecture/container and CODEC are you working with?

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Lots of options – masks, RotoBrush, keying, AutoTrace, mattes or a combination of the above. It all depends on the footage you’re dealing with.

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