[Stuart Fellows]

Thanks guys. Now I know I’m not completely snoozing through the book :).

Stuart

[Stuart Fellows]

Dave,
Thank you for the reply and apologies for the wrong terminology.

Funny, I was trying blend modes for the layer, but hadn’t looked in the mask portion of the time line. Now that I found it , yep it works.

I’m not trying to accomplish much but learn After Effects :). Been mostly working with the Meyer’s book. I was going back and reviewing some material and got caught on this issue. However, I’m always open to hearing about a better way. I imagine there must be someway to create an alpha mask in the text layer, just can’t think of how to do it in AE.

Cheers,
Stuart

[Stuart Fellows]

Okay , finally got the import working. My 3D program was disabling certain things in the final render that I’m guessing AE wanted.

Sorry
StuRt

[Stuart Fellows]

I was referring to the 3D Channel Effects:

In the AE Reference this information is given:
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Use 3D Channel effects to integrate 3D scenes into 2D composites and to make changes to those 3D scenes. You can import 3D image files saved in RLA, RPF, Softimage PIC/ZPIC, and Electric Image EI/EIZ formats. For PIC and EI files, the 3D channel information is in the ZPIC and EIZ files, respectively. You don

[Stuart Fellows]

Thank you jedidv, initially I did not take a close enough look at the option.

Stuart

[Stuart Fellows]

Apologies!

Stuart

[Stuart Fellows]

Yep, thank you. I discovered that a little while ago. The reason I didn’t notice it before was in the manual it leads you to the trimmer and using the ctrl or alt drag. What is really required is just dragging it.

Thank you again!

Stuart