After Effects :: Was Maximum Buffer Of 30.000px Or Mask Feather Of 1000px Upped In CC?
Jun 26, 2013
I work a lot for companies doing big media installations (auto motor shows for example) where we have huge resolutions, which often exceed the maximum comp size of 30.000px in width.
Is this limitation still there in CC? And if so, why can't it be set higher? With LED technology getting better the resolutions are skyrocketing (I already worked on 3mm pixel pitch LED panels)
Also something that goes in conjunction with this: Mask Feather size, which is limited to 1000px in AE CS6 and lower. Any change there in CC?If this limitations would be removed, it would be a good argument for CC.
Essentially I'm doing the same effect as you would use to blur a face; adjustment layer-mask-guassian blur. However, I can't figure out how I would go about feathering the edges of the blur. Instead of having a box with very clear cut edges where the blur/mask ends, I'd like to feather the edges and have the blur fade into the rest of the comp.
what settings or option do I need to take, if I want to save my .PSB as a JPEG and want to avoid reducing the size down to 30.000px. Actually I do not care if some editors won't be able to handle JPEGs larger than 30.000px. I just want to produce one with 39.000px, and can't imagine PS won't allow me to do that.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've burned like 9 DVDs without issue using ulead. I'm now burning another, but have wasted 4 DVDs since I am getting a dialog, right near the end of the actual burn for:
"Data buffer underrun. The computer may be too busy with other tasks or may not have enough power to keep the specified burning speed. [534:-2147216284:0]"
All movies are about the same length (120m) and all settings are the same. My computer is a 4.6Ghz dual core AMD with 2G RAM. I'm writing to a HD with 200G free; local disk has 120G free. No other apps open.
This is the first time I've received this error; I've totally recreated a vsp project and everything, but I still get this error. I've modified so that the burn is only at 4x, which is shows is the minimum? The option to enable buffer underrun is disabled and I can't select it. I'm doing a two-pass conversion just like all my other successful burns.
I am familiar with GIS but I am new to AutoCAD Map 2012.
I have 140,000 lines and 20,000 points.
I would like to have all points closer than 1 meter to a line.
This is what I tried to do:
buffer the lines (_mapfdobuffercreate)overlay points and buffer (_MapGisOverLay) to get all points in the buffer area
This works well with a small amount of data.But in step 1 I have to select all lines (140,000) with the mouse. When I try to select all lines with the mouse AutoCAD Map freezes after some minutes. Is there a way with AutoCAD to work on a “layer basis” and not on a “selection set basis”. Other GIS (ESRI, Quantum, …) work with a complete layer.
In this analysis I work with FDO Data (shp,sqlite,sdf). I have geometries, but no attribute data.
Is there a way to prevent the render window from clearing to black before rendering a new frame when using the scanline renderer? Several versions ago Max used to leave the old image up while updating and its easier for me in some cases to see changes when the previous frame is still there and updates as the scanline renders down the frame.
I would like AMAP to perform a BUFFER operation on a certain SHP, so the resulting buffer polygons would get the table attributes from that original shape, and also be exported as a SHP.
It is mandatory that a buffer polygon will have the same attributes from the original SHP line, including its FeatID.
I'm a beginner of 3ds max. I have trouble with getting alpha image from Vray frame buffer.
My scene is very simple -2 Objects with Vray standard material -Vray plane -Vray dome light
Even when I render as Tiff data, I can not see alpha image. It is all white. How to get alpha image. And also is there anything else good way to get alpha image by the each object(without using matt/shadow material)? I used 'VrayWireColor' from 'Render Elements' but the image edge has slightly white frindge...
I am trying to create a 150m buffer around points from a map features that I have attached from an SDF.
If I select any amount of points to buffer I get the following error:Unable to complete buffer operation
Using Civil 3D 2011 (come with Map 3D of course) 64 bit on a window 64 bit machine. Tried attaching sqlite db with no luck, then exported to SDF attached to dwg as datasource, themed, etc... tried feature buffer analysis again... same error.
I tried the cocut software and it worked for about 3 days, now I get the Data in Buffer message on the screen and it does not print. The motors fire up when I try, but it does not cut. XP or Windows &, no difference.
I'm taking over some code from a developer that is no longer here. Right now when the code saved a resultbuffer object to xdata, I get an eregappidnotfound. Due to various forums, I believe this is because the ID is not being registered with the database before it's being inserted.
The error is thrown on this line: XData.ToXData(partCollection);
public static ResultBuffer ToXData(PartCollection Parts) { //Write out some header information ResultBuffer rb = new ResultBuffer(new TypedValue(System.Convert.ToInt32(DxfCode.ExtendedDataRegAppName), XDATA_APP_NAME), new TypedValue(System.Convert.ToInt32(DxfCode.ExtendedDataInteger16), XDATA_TYPE), new [code].......
So you know when a video buffers, it is typically a round path with circles or lines and such that go from dark to light? Well, I need something like that for a logo design. I am trying to create a custom art brush, but its not happening. I created the shape Id like for all of the things to be along the path, but I don;t know which method of creating a brush to use.
Also, how to make each part around the circle get lighter?
I reset the feather to 0 but it still seems to be there. That is, I make a selection, and when I color it in, there is still a bit of blur (about 5 to 10 pixels worth) between the colored region and the outside region. How do I ensure that feathering is disabled (or set to zero)?
If I make a section with the marquee tool, and then Select > feather 100 px, I get a smooth rectangular gradient.If I use the same Marquee selection, preceded by feathering in the Options Bar, I get an oval selection reflecting the feathering.I observe the feathering by creating a layer mask, or by dragging the selected Layer into another document.
