Simon Ubsdell
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Check out this Motion 5 tutorial from FX Mahoney:
It does what you are asking …
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[Walter Soyka] “That said, I spend an inordinate amount of time in AE, but even I personally think of After Effects in terms of motion graphics before I think of it in terms of pure compositing.”
I’d never waste time compositing in AE – nodal compositing is the only sensible way to go. AE just isn’t buit for it, but you keep hearing that it is and a lot of people try (with frequently indifferent results), hence my observation.
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[Shane Ross] “publically perform, publically display, distribute”
[Shane Ross] “distribute, publicly display, publicly perform”
Gotta love the classy way the spell “publicly” wrong in one paragraph and right in the other!
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[Alan Okey] ” And I can’t fathom why there’s still no per-vertex mask feathering in AE without a paid third-party plugin.”
Absolutely!!!!!!!!!
One of the reasons (and there are several others) which it’s nonsense to talk about AE as a grown-up compositor. This is a really key function – can’t believe they still haven’t got round to it.
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[Oliver Peters] “I’m not completely against compounds, although it seems they don’t pass through translation, so my gut feeling is that they are ultimately just as evil as FCP7 nesting 😉
My real objection is that you HAVE to create a compound clip to get the desired result. A) This is counter-intuitive, B) poor software design and C) nowhere is this documented.”
Actually I don’t disagree with any of that!
As you say, it makes no sense at all to have to compound anything – unless, this is one of those outmoded track-based features that used to work and don’t work with the glorious new paradigm, who knows?
And yes, I think all the evidence points to compound clips being a lot less great than they’re cracked up to be. I know that if I were working on a serious project in FCPX I’d try to keep use of them to the absolute minimum to avoid the notorious project bloat issue. I mean, who knows when you might accidentally slice through one in a fit of misplaced creativity and double the size of your project?!
Apart from being able to break them apart, I fail, like you, to see why they are supposed to be such a huge improvement on the dreaded nest of old. Is there in fact any other significant difference?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Anther way to do this without a compound is to have your Fill on the bottom, matte in the middle with the transfer mode applied to you matte type (Stencil alpha or what have you) then put the BG layer on top and set it’s transfer mode to “Behind”.”
Nice! Although, pace Oliver, I do quite like having the matte and fill as a compound so you can affect them together but this is a neat trick.
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[Phil Hoppes] “If you know someone who has Nuke (I do) there is a trick for dealing with chroma sub sampled data. You feed your original track into a colorspace node and break it into YUV data, or in the case of Nuke it is YCbCr. Your Luma in now on the red channel and your color is on the green and blue channels.”
You can of course achieve this in the much more humbly priced Conduit. And yes, it’s a good keying tip if you have access to any nodal compositor.
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Hi Gerry
I did also make a diffusion filter as part of another effect (ability to diffuse whites and blacks separately) – if you’re interested I could revisit that. It gives a pretty nice effect much more like a camera filter if that’s the look you’re going for.
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I made an FCPX template that is specifically aimed at addressing this kind of issue – not an overall diffusion but a set of tools for focussing on the skin areas:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/8218
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[David McGavran] ” Hi Guys,
Haven’t posted to the cow before but read it quite often… Dennis and Todd seem to have this place covered 🙂
Just wanted to drop in and say hi.
Cheers
Dave”
Thought I’d just drop one last line correcting the title of this thread.
Simon Ubsdell
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