[Sebastian Rivera]

Cool, I’ll wait for the update.

thank you.

[Sebastian Rivera]

Thanks Walter your help is always appreciated. The project is a bit complicated to describe.
I settled for rendering out each layer separately and using RGB + alpha and then using Premiere to put it together. z

I am still working on the same project from a couple of months ago.
You gave me some good advise regarding precomposing and masking.

when the project is over I’ll make sure to send you the info. And maybe you can then give me your opinion of what would have been better.

thanks.

[Sebastian Rivera]

Yes, I guess I would just have to edit in AE. I am going to consider moving to Nuke after this since that software integrates nicely with Hiero.

thanks anyways

[Sebastian Rivera]

Erik & Walter – thank you very much, that is indeed a simpler workflow. I’ll send you guys a video of the project once I am finished. You help me save a lot of time!

thanks for the help!

[Sebastian Rivera]

Thanks for the reply Erik.

I think the problem with your workflow is that I need to “cut” each mask(with an image) and then pass it to a comp where they are all together. If I use a solid layer and masks inside that layer I am not able to transform those masks to each to a new layer since if I do I would get a solid without an image.

In the attached picture the one of the top shows that I only want to get the portions that have the image not the black, the bottom picture surrounded by a yellow square shows the final comp of the masks together.

The problem arises when I have an image that moves – you can see the transparency in the attached image –

when I have that the masks also move so I need to do what I described in the previous post.

Let me know if I am missing something? maybe I didn’t completely understand what you were explaining.

I appreciate the help.

[Sebastian Rivera]

humm I figured out a workflow don’t know if it is the best way.

Basically use a shape mask on top of the layer.make the shape rectangles on everything except black rectangles then use track matt then precompose both layers(shape + moving layer) then use masks on the pre comp then masks to layer script. and then you move the layers together to get what I wanted to get initially on the first image I attached -this time working with a moving layer.

[Sebastian Rivera]

Thank you Joseph.. very helpful. And thx for the script.

The problem I am having now is when using masks in moving images. Images that have a keyframe animation of the position. The masks move with the image position.

If you see previously attached image – the bottom example – Imagine that is a portion of a big scaled image that moves from position A to B .. the thing is that masks move with the image. I

here is what I am doing

So I am making various masks of the video in every space except where the black columns are, then I use the script and make layers out of the masks then I move the masks to another comp where I can put each one next to each other. This works perfectly for videos that are still.

[Sebastian Rivera]

Thanks everyone for the help, I think I understand how to do this now.

thanks for the tutorial Lori.

[Sebastian Rivera]

one more question,

Is it possible to shoot something at 60fps then twixtor it to slow it down and then capture certain stills, re interpret to slow them down then interpolate the motion between them so it is very slow, frame blend, and then make it match into the slowed downed 60fps.

I am still trying to figure out how would I make someone jumping up very slowlyy and then in the middle of the air make him float (with small movements) for 20 minutes and higher.

thanks

[Sebastian Rivera]

cool, thanks for the tutorial.