[Roland R. kahlenberg]

You could have saved yourself a lot of time and trouble by NOT using any markers. mocha will do an excellent job by tracking just the area around the reflective screen.

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Paul, try the Adobe AE Forum, they’re much better at stuff like this.

Good Luck
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

See this thread – https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/202/888824

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

What file format/CODEC are you using? This could be causing the huge bottleneck.

RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[bart stevens] “Sounds like results will be better when using the effect in different compositions vs. multiple clips in different compositions.”

Bart, I believe you meant to write, “results will be better when using the effect on a single clip vs. multiple clips in a single composition.” OR use WS VFX only on single clips. FWIW, it’s the same thing with the 3D Camera Tracker.

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

It’s impossible to draw that image without round-tripping a similar path region at least four times if you intend to draw this without lifting your drawing device from the surface. I believe that this may be your issue in Illustrator – and hence AE.

Your best shot if to copy paste each mask’s path into a position property. Each time you paste into the position prop, ensure that you remove duplicate first/last position points. Then check for validity of the path before pasting each subsequent path.

Once you’ve copied all the paths, apply Roving Keyframes and adjust the duration accordingly.

Before starting out, you will still have to decide how the overlapped paths will be drawn.

Cheers
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Darby Edelen] “Yes, either render it with Straight Alpha or interpret the imported footage as Premultiplied.”

Hi Darby, I haven’t used a Premult Alpha for about a decade. I didn’t think that interpreting the Alpha correctly was a solution – wouldn’t the pre-mult alpha contain some RGB pixels of the rendered comp?

Cheers
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

You’re most welcome sir!

Bestest!
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Auto-trace might help but a perfect result is dependent on your original masks. Otherwise, it’s back to AI to massage the paths such that you will have fewer paths to work with in AE.

Cheers
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Try rendering with Straight Alpha Channels.

HTH
RoRK

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