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	Re: issue with masking in event pan/crop by Paul Belter on Apr 14, 2012 at 5:19:18 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum jeff, thanks a lot for good tip. i tried it out a bit and i see it is a good direction. i don't have time now to test more but i will :) as about same fxs on both events - look: i can't have trhe same fx on both. this is why i am masking to apply st


	Re: issue with masking in event pan/crop by Jeff Schroeder on Apr 14, 2012 at 2:47:55 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum My guess is that you have other effects applied to both events and it matters if they fall before or after the pan/crop. Look to the top line of your event chain and move fx to the other side of pan/crop. I can explain it in pictures if you need to


	Re: AE CS6 has been announced!!! by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Apr 14, 2012 at 7:06:31 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum AE CS6 is the biggest/bestest AE upgrade since AE introduced 3D Layers. The Global Performance Cache alone, for me, is worth the upgrade. I've done up a short promo video showcasing the 3D Camera Tracker in CS6. The 3D Camera Tracker is fast and m


	issue with masking in event pan/crop by Paul Belter on Apr 13, 2012 at 9:59:17 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum hi guys! please help. is this the way vegas works or i am doing sth wrong: i wanna aply an fx to a part of a frame. i duplicate a track with my event to be edited. so initially i have two identical tracks with two identical events stacked one a


	how to make particular's emitter fit the shape of a roto? by Josh Brine on Apr 13, 2012 at 4:06:48 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I have a piece of footage where the client wants a person to 'appear' in a sudden burst of particles, i have trapcode particular & form, so i want to create a few second long burst of particles that match the shape of the guy in the frame. I have cre


	Re: AE CS6 has been announced!!! by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Apr 12, 2012 at 2:54:06 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I agree Walter. Global Performance Cache is a huge productivity boost. Folks should take note that 3D extrusions work within AE's own 3D space. So you'll get 3D interactions between Extruded Layers and even with non-extruded 3D Layers. The 3D


	Let text move on inside or outside of a ring by Irene Driessen on Apr 11, 2012 at 8:11:32 am in the Apple Motion Forum Dear Cow Community, Tried to find an answer for this one but I might just not use the right search terms, because I haven't found anything yet. How can I make a ring of text move around a globe in Motion? Or, at least give the impression that i


	Re: How to create this pixelation look by chandra hope on Apr 8, 2012 at 1:38:42 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Thanks for the response! I appreciate it! Ya, I have been playing with moving video and Moasic and cell pattern. Still can't get those cool quick transitions though. Like the very first few frames. I think by getting some animated video an


	How to create this pixelation look by chandra hope on Apr 8, 2012 at 1:18:15 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi there, So I was wondering if there is quick trick I am unaware of to create this beautiful pixelation look. I know to use a mosaic plugin (I have BCC moasic and all the standards) But I can't figure out how to do the transitions, wipes an


	Come Fly WIth Me - Intro by Martin Eriksen on Apr 7, 2012 at 5:39:07 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi guys and gals! I just saw the intro/vignette for the TV Show "Come fly with me", and I was wondering how to go forward to create this effect in After Effects! Here's the intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIlsLAI2Cl4 Here's my though on it


	Re: How to add external comp tag to an hexagon shape to get into AE by Ganbayar Gansukh on Apr 7, 2012 at 3:13:12 am in the Cinema 4D Forum So looks like masking the square shaped solid is my only option?


	Any way to get masking on Vegas HD Movie Studio? by Harlow Greguire on Apr 5, 2012 at 1:30:18 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Vegas HD Movie Studio is sort of a limited version of Vegas Pro, but I'm sure most of you guys know that. The only options for masking are pre-defined cookie-cutter shapes, they don't work very well for what I'm trying to accomplish. Anyone know


	Re: How can you make a text intro like the Alien/Prometheus Trailers? by Lee Mueller on Apr 5, 2012 at 12:54:11 pm in the Sony Vegas basics Forum Assuming the text isn't 3d...you can do that with event masking. Just create individual paths over all the letters in your text. Set them to negative and then animate them out of the way over time.


	Re: HD workflow??? by Tibor Bernscherer on Apr 4, 2012 at 5:23:35 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hey, The main problem is this; I have the footage in 3 different versions (the uncompressed one is abroad, my editor has worked on it). prores422 export, and 2 different resolution H264 exports. Following this link http://www.frameforest.com/post/


	How to create a flashing lightbulb by Kyle Smolic on Apr 4, 2012 at 2:48:59 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi, I'm producing a video for a client. It's an electrician company. I want to have their logo/company name in the middle of the frame with a lightbulb hanging above. I want the the bulb to flicker for a few seconds and then stay on. I have a lig


	Service: andytdesigns.com by andrew toutant on Mar 29, 2012 at 11:31:48 pm in the COW - Services Forum Mothership Creative I create motion graphics, design, video editing for commercials, corporate presentations, and e-learning. PBS (TV-12-WHYY), Motion Graphic/ Designer, I create station IDS, bugs, lower thirds, TV spots, web banners, graphic de


	andytdesigns.com by andrew toutant on Mar 29, 2012 at 4:31:48 pm in the Forum Mothership Creative I create motion graphics, design, video editing for commercials, corporate presentations, and e-learning. PBS (TV-12-WHYY), Motion Graphic/ Designer, I create station IDS, bugs, lower thirds, TV spots, web banners, graphic design,


	Re: Green Screen question by Dave LaRonde on Mar 28, 2012 at 10:00:41 pm in the Corporate Video Forum Oooh, the stinky color resolution of HDV or long-gop codecs rear their ugly heads! You may want to consider masking this shot off into pieces like Head, Shoulders & Torso, etc. and pulling the key on each separately. That way you can choke the sh


	Re: white background h264 problem by Alex Elkins on Mar 27, 2012 at 3:25:12 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Did you use Final Cut Pro to pull the key? Your problem is caused by the key not being clean enough. It could be a simple fix or it could be very fiddly depending on how well-lit the background is and how dissimilar it is to the subjects. I've don


	Re: Problem changing size of video/aspect resolution for a client by Angelo Mike on Mar 23, 2012 at 4:24:27 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum I can't. Unfortunately, in one part of the video, there are a few items that fade onto the screen that I was requested to crop out, which I did by masking and cropping certain areas of the frame. Basically, like a lot of split screening, only with sp


	Problem changing size of video/aspect resolution for a client by Angelo Mike on Mar 23, 2012 at 3:19:20 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum I have a 720x512 video, PAR of .9481, that a client sent to me and needed a few changes. It may go on tv, and the issue is that in the file they gave me, there's a black bar at the top of the video file that they sent to me, and now they want it remo


	Re: Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Angelo Mike on Mar 20, 2012 at 1:21:24 am in the Sony Vegas Forum WTF?! It's just the zoom transition-I just tried the iris transition to make sort of a wipe, and it rendered fine.


	Reveal with hard edge? by Josh Pigford on Mar 20, 2012 at 1:18:41 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum I've got various paths that I'd like to reveal with a hard edge. I'm familiar with the stroke masking method of setting start/end keyframes, but those have a rounded edge. I would just do a simple rectangular mask reveal, but there are a number


	Re: Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Angelo Mike on Mar 20, 2012 at 1:17:57 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Well, it DID work, until I added the zoom transition to the beginning. Now I'm having blacked out footage in my render and in Vegas after I try it. I may try re-rendering it, but the problem with that is I'll have to make a mask again, which wasn'


	Re: Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Mike Kujbida on Mar 20, 2012 at 1:15:17 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Glad to hear that Angelo. Happy editing!!


	Re: Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Angelo Mike on Mar 20, 2012 at 1:13:18 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Thanks, guys. I found a png converter online and sure enough, the masked picture is no longer a problem.


	Re: Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Tyson Onaga on Mar 20, 2012 at 1:04:57 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Can you take the jpg: 1. put it into Vegas 10, same project properties as the Vegas 11 project 2. add the p/c and masking 3. render as .mov (animation) ... 4. put that clip back into your Vegas 11 project? Tis a workaround, but it might suf


	Re: Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Mike Kujbida on Mar 20, 2012 at 1:04:08 am in the Sony Vegas Forum GIMP is free (open source) and is very similar to Photoshop. http://www.gimp.org/ If you don't want to spend the time learning it tonight, post the image on a file sharing site like Dropbox and I'll be glad to adjust it for you.


	Re: Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Angelo Mike on Mar 20, 2012 at 1:02:15 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Also, the picture when I merely resize it in Vegas doesn't cause any of this glitching in the rendered video. It seems to only be when I cut a mask around it and put it in the corner of the screen that it clashes with the other layers of video.


	Re: Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Angelo Mike on Mar 20, 2012 at 12:58:26 am in the Sony Vegas Forum I don't have Photoshop. Any alternatives? Well, I can ask the person who sent them to me, but I don't think she can get them to me before tomorrow, and I need to have this done quickly.


	Re: Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Mike Kujbida on Mar 20, 2012 at 12:57:34 am in the Sony Vegas Forum I would bring the jpeg into Photoshop, get rid of what I didn't need and save it as a PNG (to keep the alpha channel). Bring that into Vegas and use Pan/Crop to position and resize as needed.


	Need video soon-Vegas 11 Pro not rendering footage with lots of masking and cropping properly by Angelo Mike on Mar 20, 2012 at 12:51:01 am in the Sony Vegas Forum I'm editing a video which I didn't shoot and had to do a lot of masking and cropping on several video tracks. That worked fine and I was able to render out a video earlier. However, a jpeg image that the client sent me to put on the video over the


	Re: an idiots guide to difference masking? An easier way? [SORRY FOR LONG POST] by andy abulafia on Mar 18, 2012 at 6:55:11 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum thoughts, anyone? :-)


	Greetings Light Wizards. by Johann Roon Saltman on Mar 18, 2012 at 8:00:05 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum HI there.... I am a musician who is getting interested in video. I have composed about 150 hours for discovery. First post - long time reader... but i am indeed quite stuck It is a tutorial exercise. i have three rotating sectors of diminish


	Re: How do I match exposure/color of a single clip with two exposure values? by Mike Imam on Mar 16, 2012 at 3:41:15 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Thanks - will definitely try the loose mask technique first. I also thought of a possible editorial solution, but it's not elegant. Feels like I'm crowbarring it in - something I'm sure anyone who's done editing feels at some point. I'll see how the


	Re: How do I match exposure/color of a single clip with two exposure values? by Walter Soyka on Mar 16, 2012 at 3:30:21 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum [Mike Imam] "Walter, I thought of the masking solution but wanted to see if there was a way to avoid laboriously keying out the background." There may be no need to laboriously key out the background. A loose, soft mask may go a long way. [Mi


	Re: How do I match exposure/color of a single clip with two exposure values? by Mike Imam on Mar 16, 2012 at 3:21:51 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Wow, not the best news, but I certainly appreciate the help from both of you. Walter, I thought of the masking solution but wanted to see if there was a way to avoid laboriously keying out the background. Looks like I may be forced to do that as i


	an idiots guide to difference masking? An easier way? [SORRY FOR LONG POST] by andy abulafia on Mar 16, 2012 at 12:57:30 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Unfortunately my boss at work is in love with his webcam and insists on us watching him talk to us in meetings (we are all remote workers) using Microsoft office Communicator Now his latest thing is changing the background to being underwater, in


	Re: Quickest technique for masking simple shapes? by Roger Maus on Mar 16, 2012 at 11:01:09 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum [Eric Santiago] [...] can you auto-trace in Illustrator then copy and paste vectors?Wow, creative strategy. Would really give me crisp, scalable (!) results. However I think that I am actually way quicker with the magic wand in PS - not coloring the


	Re: Quickest technique for masking simple shapes? by Roger Maus on Mar 16, 2012 at 10:55:38 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Yes, that's what I did so far, but the rototool needs way too much performance for working and rendering.


	Re: Thoughts on this fluorescent + LED Light setup for mostly Interviews by Bill Davis on Mar 13, 2012 at 3:42:36 pm in the Lighting Design Pros Forum [Craig Seeman] "Again the issue is control. Cool Lights seem to have 2 way barn doors with an egg crate option. Flolights seem to have 4 way barn doors with a defuser option. " Craig, Yes, the barn doors for the Cool Lights are 2-way - but I'd


	Re: How to draw a new mask for every frame? by Dave LaRonde on Mar 13, 2012 at 2:38:28 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I would animate a garbage mask around the cloth; it's a lot easier than rotoscoping, because you don't have to be anywhere near as precise in your masking. Then I would use either the Change Color or Change To Color effects to change the cloth color


	Re: Quickest technique for masking simple shapes? by Juan Manuel on Mar 13, 2012 at 1:44:48 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum How about making the outside green in PS and using a chroma key in AE to make the outside transparent?


	Re: Disabling Depth of field for a specific 3D layer by Chris Buttacoli on Mar 12, 2012 at 2:40:55 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum How about duplicating the comp, one with and one without DOF, and masking out the layer in question when combining the two comps together? Or even more complex, make three comps, one comp of the layer in question w/o DOF, another comp of all layer


	Alpha channel not working by Mark Krueger on Mar 12, 2012 at 11:52:13 am in the Sony Vegas Forum I downloaded some lower thirds from Video Blocks. I have used them in Vegas before with no problem. Now I can't seem to get the alpha channel to work. I cannot get a transparent background. When I drop it into the time line I have a black backgro


	Re: Quickest technique for masking simple shapes? by Eric Santiago on Mar 12, 2012 at 3:33:40 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum might be a long shot but can you auto-trace in Illustrator then copy and paste vectors? I wonder if you do that with initial paste then add keyframe to mask, it would tween? thinking out of my noggin of course :)


	Re: How to draw a new mask for every frame? by Simon Ruschmeyer on Mar 11, 2012 at 5:08:18 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Dear Dave, I changed the color of the cloth to a more vibrant red. I first tried to pull a key with primatte bud did not succeed. That's why I turned to masking it. Which technique would you have suggested? Best regards, Simon


	Re: How to draw a new mask for every frame? by Simon Ruschmeyer on Mar 11, 2012 at 12:49:39 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Dear All, thank you for your help, it's so much appreciated. Imm masking a piece of cloth which a woman folds out and arranges it on the floor, for most of the frames the form of the cloth changes so fast and in so many directios that interpolating


	Re: More external monitor questions by Neil Patience on Mar 11, 2012 at 10:46:34 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Tou cant go direct from Thunderbolt to a broadcast monitor. It does not sound like you have an existing capture card but if you do there are adapters which allow you to use PCIe crds with Thunderbolt so you could use say a Kona i/o card and adapt


	Re: Quickest technique for masking simple shapes? by Frank Brown on Mar 10, 2012 at 9:24:45 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Sorry, I didn't notice that they aren't digital. If I'll have any idea how to make quick masking I'll post it.

Podcasts


	adobe after effects podcast You Ask....I Answer: Masking vs Track Matting Part 2: Adobe After Effects In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at doing the same viewer requested track matting technique he showed in Motion 5, but the time he demonstrates the technique inside of Adobe After Effects.


	apple motion podcast You Ask...I Answer: Masking in Apple's Motion Part ONE In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer's question about masking in Apple's Motion, and shows that sometimes the best way to mask something, is not to mask it at all!


	apple motion podcast On the Fast Track with Motion 5 Chapter 1 Lesson 3 - The HUD, Generators and Masking In the next part at our introductory look at Apple's Motion 5, we take a look at a great "not so hidden" feature in Motion 5, and that's the Heads Up Display (HUD).


	adobe after effects podcast After Effects From The Ground Up - Chapter 1 Lesson 4: Masking Another After Effects fundamental is Masking, but masking is something that in most training is quickly covered, and only shows you the absolute basics, and leaves you not only wanting, but needing more direction.


	adobe photoshop for video podcast Masks Panel In this episode of the Photoshop for Video podcast, Richard Harrington discusses his favorite addition to Photoshop CS4, the masks panel which gives you precise control over the masks on a layer.

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