After Effects :: How To Make Video Mask Adapt To A Path
Jul 3, 2013
i am currently working on the storyboard for a title sequence, and i have to animate it now.
As you can see in the picture i have a light blue background that has a circular shaped mask, and everything happens inside this mask in multiple layers on the back.
my problem is i want this mask to be animated, and to have a watercolor felling. so i thought of using video footage of ink, you know the typical video of ink falling into water and sort of expanding.
i have no problem making the video appear inside the ink stain, but my question is: is there a way to make a video follow the shape of an object? so i can make this ink footage adapt to different mask forms, for example a circle or a triangle, or even more complicated forms like, i dont know a human silhouette?
i am thinking something that stretches the video along a path with the shape of the object may be the solution.
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Jan 15, 2014
I am trying to use a mask and keep it still while a motion tracked video moves around inside it.
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Aug 25, 2013
I have a question about the pen tool. I went to go make a mask with the pen tool and in stead of making a mask it make a shape layer and I can't get it to make a mask.
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Aug 29, 2011
I can't seem to find any masks, or make a successful one myself in Paint Shop Pro, that creates a white photo border around a video, to make it look like a bordered photograph. All the edges I've made want to let the video show through the white border. How to do this? I just need a white border around a video to appear as if it's a photograph.
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Dec 12, 2013
I am wondering if it is possible with an 3D autocad design to make a 'free roam' kind of walk through the design.
I know how to make a video clip on a set path, but lets just say you create a road and a couple of houses next to it i kinda want to walk over the road/sidewalk like it were a game.
Is that possible within the autodesk software range? Or do i need to transfer a design to an game engine and go from there?
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Aug 30, 2013
How do I make CC Particle World follow a path I create with the pen tool in AE CS6?
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Dec 30, 2012
While creating various circular masks with a radial gradient from white to black, whenever I change the blending mode of the mask path Ai will throw me out of mask mode into layer editing mode. Since this is on a large document of ~2Gb file with multiple artbords for large poster & UI refresh speed is slow, this has become quite frustrating. Is this normal Ai behaviour?
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Jan 17, 2014
I am trying to "erase" extra video and show only 1 of the moving objects in the video .on an athletic field we are trying to show only the movements of 1 player...is it possible to "delete all of the other players movements and just show one player and then overlay that video on the empty field?
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Feb 18, 2013
Is it possible to import a digital video sequence into photoshop and convert it into individual frames, so that each frame can be manipulated individually (drawn into, coloured etc) and then reform the individual frames into a video file for export toAfter Effects, Premier Pro or Avid?
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Jul 11, 2013
Is there any function or script that auto-adjust tracking so text on a path meets the exact end of the path/bracket?
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Sep 2, 2013
In PSP X5 I'm pretty sure there's a way to make User Defined Instant Effects in the Adjust mode, but I can't find the steps in the Help Files. I'm thinking these are just scripts, but I'm not sure.
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Aug 1, 2008
I am soliciting input about the specific steps needed to efficiently go from an alpha channel mask to a stroked path on a new layer. That is, the selection outline(marching ants)that can be derived from the mask wants to be converted to a path and stroked and placed on a new layer. I am looking for a minimum set of steps to get there.
Running CS3 ext on a Windows platform.
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Jun 10, 2012
I work on a grafic. It uses text, which already is converted to paths. The counters of my caracters were kicked out of their original positions, due to a spurious action. Now I’m trying to bring them back into the already existing mask/path.
Selecting the counters’ paths is no problem here. It’s more about, how to get and merge those vectors into the mask-layer.I tried the direct-selection-tool, copy/pasting, dragging, cmd J – none of those methods brought any satisfaction.
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Aug 24, 2013
I’m trying to add some text effects over my video, but I’m really stuck right now getting After Effects and Adobe Premier to work together.
From the tutorials I’ve watched online, I’ve been trying to create a dynamic link between the two programs so I could easily create texts and other effects in AE that immediately show up on my timeline in Premier. I've been able to create texts, but whatever I create in AE is not showing up on the Premier timeline. Am I missing a step? Also, when I load up my sequence into AE, all of the color correcting that I’ve done with Looks inside Premier goes away, and the clips appear as they did right out of the camera.
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Mar 8, 2012
I've been doing a lot of clipping paths lately and I'm considering purchasing Perfect Mask 5 from on One Software to make that process a little easier. It looks like Perfect Mask creates image masks. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
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Mar 24, 2013
i created a mask in my footage by using pencil tool
now i want to scale it down (NOT to shrink/expand masked area)
tried this: selected footage layer and went to Transform - Scale, and even if i scale down to -500%, nothing happens. Then went to Mask - Mask Expansion, but this is not the feature i need. I need to scale down the object which i've masked out
also tried to add adjustment layer and linked my mask layer to it and then tried to scale down Adjustment layer - no effect, simply nothing happens
using AE6 trial version on win7
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Aug 24, 2013
I see path, feather, opacity, and expansion. I want to edit the shape.
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Oct 27, 2013
im trying to make an adjustment to one section of my footage.i followed other instructions elsewhere about making a mask on a solid and then linking the solid to a null object, which has tracking footage (i was thinking i could motion track a mask?)
so i did that, but tracking motion doesnt work, the mask moves everywhere so i went in and moved the mask points at keyframes, which was annoying. but now i can't add adjustments to the solid where the mask is. i turned the solid into an adjustment layer but adding color correction adjustments doesn't work.
i have to use after effects by the way. basically tl:dr i need to color correct one section (or the masked part) of my footage. how can i do that in AE?
also is there an easier way to motion track something that goes completely off screen or out of the comp window? cause its a handheld shot and theres like a pan, and im trying to track the mask but it doesnt really work or stay around the area it needs to.
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Mar 9, 2014
i have a shot in an office where i have a subject walking in front of some really bright windows. i added an adjustment layer and made 6 mask squares over the windows and brought down the brightness a bit. of course when the subject walks in front of those windows you can see the shaded mask on him.
im not sure what you call it but what do i do to him to keep the mask from showing on him?
not sure if i should make another thread but ill ask this as well in here...in the same shot because of the bright windows originally the rest of the scene inside the office is dark. how do i brighten the rest of the scene without affecting the windows? i tried duplicating the adjustment layer with the 6 masks and inverting them so i can brighten everything but windows but no matter what i did i couldnt get it to work.
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May 28, 2013
I've been working with adaptive parts for a while now so I think I have a pretty good handle on how they work, but I've tried every trick I know and can't get this adaptive part to adapt correctly. When I apply the final constraint, which should drive its length, Inventor tells me it's an inconsistent constraint. If the part would adapt, it should be perfectly consistent. I've attached my work-set, the constraint I'm trying to apply is "Flush:17" under "Side Guard Plate" (the last component in the browser tree).
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Sep 25, 2012
I created the path, but for some reason it's 'reversed' or 'inverted' from what I want - is there any way to change it so the spinach is cropped properly?
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Jan 19, 2013
Win7 64bit Ai: Cs6
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down under step #4 it says to Copy (& Paste) the circle that's inside a Clipping Mask and to the drag it out of the mask in order to duplicate it twice.
I've pulled it out of the mask or even, actually, how to go about pulling it out of the mask
thus far I've Copied and Pasted in In Front ... does copying and pasting it in front bring it outta the mask?
do i need to create a new layer after I've Copied it and then Paste it on the new layer?
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Feb 21, 2012
Im getting myself in a mess with this one, i need to have a picture as the background With two videos running one in the blue section & one in the red!
Is there a easy way to do this? or will i have to make two mask one for each video? if so how would i make them?
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Jan 22, 2014
is it possible to move a layer (with a mask) without affecting its mask position and without precomposing the layer? Much like in Photoshop, where you can achieve this by using vector masks. Let`s say I have a video-layer that has a square mask added to it. The mask is already perfectly positioned in the comp. I don`t want to move or adjust it any further. But I`m not pleased with the framing of the source material. If I`m moving the frame then, the masks moves along with it. Is there a way to get rid of this cohesion of mask and layer?
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Nov 13, 2013
This is probably an AE 101 question.
I have a shape that was made in Illustrator. See right. It's the thought-ballon-y-looking thing.
The everything outside of the black part is transparent. I want to use this shape as a mask so that another comp will appear inside the balloon shape, but not outside the shape.
Easy to do?
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Nov 24, 2013
How do I apply the mask track feature on After Effects CC? I can't seem to find it.
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Jan 7, 2013
I reinstalled AutoCad 2010. Registration went fine, but I'm very limited inside AutoCad 2010. I can not print anything. It won't adapt new plotters. I can't export or publish a drawing in PDF, nor can I access options to make any changes whatsoever.
The text box that appears now is Fatal Error: unhandled access violation reading 0x0000exceptionat9842eeh. I am unable to go through that route because of Federal Government security settings.
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Oct 26, 2013
Any way to do this using strokes, but everything I've tried so far has been unsuccessful. I'm starting to realize that this may actually be impossible, but maybe there's a trick I'm unaware of. Pic should explain what I'm trying to do.
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Feb 22, 2009
I want to fade a text layer with bevel, gradient overlay, and stroke, and mask only seems to fade the gradient, not the original text color, so it doesn't blend with the bg. I can't use gradient overlay for fade either because I'm already using it and it won't fade the stroke anyway.
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Apr 16, 2013
I am drawing animations with the brush tool onto a black solid layer which is set to add blending mode.
My goal is to create a mask on the solid layer to hide a certain area of what I drew... but it doesn't change anything.
I noticed when I add another effect to the layer (such as curves) the mask does hide that area of the effect, but thats not exactly what I'm trying to do.
ps. I have After Effects CS6
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Jun 5, 2013
I did put a real photo in the background of my website to fit entire page. So the text of my webpage is black, and sometimes other colors. So what happen is that some times the text is hard to read when it come on top of dark places of the photo (for example hear of people). So i want to adapt the photo to make it more unicolor, more whiten (increase whiteness) so the black text will appear even better.
What tools and filters in gimp that give me this ability to do that ?
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