Re: BCC Glint - How to move without background by peter mcauley on Jul 22, 2008 at 5:11:37 pm
Hi,
Because the Glint is a threshold based effect, you'll need to be a little creative to achieve the intended goal of adding the glint to the talents' smile.
With AE as host:
• create a new comp
• create a new black solid color layer (although the color of the layer isn't that important)
• select the paint tool
• double click the layer to open it in the paint mode
• set the brush to about 5 pixels and the color to white
• create a single paint spot somewhere in the layer - the middle works fine for this
• enable the paint on transparency option in the paint filter
• apply the Glint to this comp and set it up so that you have only one glint the size that you need
• precomp this composition (select move all attributes) - name it Glint
• place the "Glint" comp over the talent and drag it into position
Re: BCC Glint - How to move without background by peter mcauley on Jul 23, 2008 at 2:47:00 pm
Hi Caton,
Well doing this in an Avid is a little more complex due to how that system handles alpha information.
• in photoshop create an image that has only a single white dot in the center and everything else transparent and save this as a tiff with alpha
• import this into the avid, make sure you include the alpha channel on the import
• once imported, drag this image onto a video track in the timeline above the clip with the talent
• apply the glint to the photoshop image
• in the title-matte controls group of the bcc glint filter, enable the apply to title-matte option
• you should now be able to reposition the glint image with the glint over the talent's smile
Re: BCC Glint - How to move without background by Ryan Brown on Jul 31, 2008 at 2:05:58 pm
Hi Peter, I found your info very helpful, still one prob:
Once the Tiff is in the Avid, I can repostion the dot within the effects editor to it's desired location. However once I apply the BCC Glint (Nested or Not), the dot returns to it's origonal position, when I try to re-position, the whole clip moves. (Back to square 1). When I step in to the nest the key symbol has been removed from the tiff, which means you can't move the alpha?
