[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[John O'Riley] “THIS IS WHERE I GOT A BIT CONFUSED WITH YOUR ADVICE.

Under Transform for the camera I changed all the position and orientation keys to 0, 0, 0”

You apply these settings to the tracked footage layer – NOT to the camera. If you applied these settings to the camera then you would be negating the tracked data.

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Mask out the actors and other extraneous movement so that the Warp Stabilizer is able to solve, strictly, for camera movement. Once you’v e masked out the actors, you can try the Warp Stabilizer and Darby’s 3D Camera Tracker recipe to see which gives you the best result.

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

I’m glad you’ve solved this puzzle. If you’d like to provide the mocha, AE and footage file, I’ll take a look at the files over the weekend.

BTW, which rotoscoping tutorial were you alluding to, in your earlier post?

Cheers
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

I suggest that you copy over one shape at a time from mocha and paste each shape on a copy of the footage that you want to cut out. So you’ll have at least 9 instances of the footage.

Ensure that each time you paste, that the timeline indicator is at frame 0. It doesn’t matter when your shape becomes active.

When you have more time in the future, try to work out the mechanics using 2-3 shapes. Then come back to this project and see if you can work it out using 9 shape instances on a single layer.

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

I’ve just realized that the effects requires a controller layer’s position property. Since two layers are required, you can’t save this effect as an Animation Preset without some gymnastics.

I suggest that you simply re-use the AEP.

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Text Presets are a little hard to save in that all the parameters have to be saved – ie lots of selections will have to be made. You should also ensure that the Expression Controls are saved.

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

The layer names in mocha and AE are different so it’s hard to tell what’s happening there. Perhaps its not important but I can’t see clearly where or what the issue is with your mocha shapes from the Comp Panel.

However, I believe that your issue is very likely due to one or more shapes cutting into each other. BTW, this is your fourth post and you still have not described your problem. All you have done is to say that you’ve messed about with the blending modes for the mocha shape effect.

I think if you experiment sufficiently, you should find the solution on your own.

Cheers
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

If you export all the shapes at one go from mocha and paste them onto only a single layer in AE, the first shape at the top of the effects control panel will have its mode set to Multiply. All instances of the mocha shape below will have their modes set to Add.

If your shapes look fine in mocha then they should look fine, at their default settings in AE.

If you posted a few screen grabs, that may help a lot to finding out what the issue is. If you’re keen to provide screen grabs, then provide the following –
1) layer controls panel in mocha
2) effect controls panel in AE
3) timeline in AE
4) comp panel in AE.

Finally, the best example of a subtraction matte is in the creation of an “O”. You should realize that you will require TWO shapes (or masks if you were to do it in AE) to create an “O”. One shape ti create the outside edge and another for the inside edge. The shape used to create the inside edge is commonly referred to as a subtract or subtraction matte.

In mocha, you can create a subtraction matte in two ways –
1) create a matte in its own layer and set its Blend Mode to Subtract (or Add with the Invert switch set to On)

2) Create two mattes in a single layer where one matte overlaps or overlays over the other.

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

AcccKKk!!! One last Q, are you exporting the shapes (a) one at a time or (2) all at one go or (3) a few at a time?

[John craven] “Not sure how I should go about creating a subtraction matte.
“

My question was, do you have a subtraction matte? NOT do you know how to create a subtraction matte. So, do you have a subtraction matte?

HTH
RoRK

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Update your version of AE – restart and give it another try. And please use the COW’s AE Basics forum which has been set up for new AE users.

HTH
RoRK

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