http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: masks - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:19:12 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ae-cs3-and-4-masks-and-compositions#post-51604 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:53:06 +0000 chuckengels 51604@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Pay $25 for a month of access to the tutorials at Lynda.com</p> <p>You can't go wrong for $25, there is over 20 hours of After Effects training along with tons of other stuff.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ae-cs3-and-4-masks-and-compositions#post-51601 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:42:43 +0000 Rambler 51601@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>ya, videocoliot is where I'd go. You might want to check out their tutorials on freezing time and the advanced car hit for work with masking</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ae-cs3-and-4-masks-and-compositions#post-51598 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:31:55 +0000 composite1 51598@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Badmonkey,</p> <p>Masking in CS3+ is not that tough. Once you learn how it works, it's actually pretty easy. You're right, most tutorials aren't very clear and can't answer your specific creative ideas. </p> <p>However, a really good place to learn how this stuff works for free is at VideoCopilot. If you can take Andrew Kramer's horrifically lame attempts at humor, you'll actually learn something.</p> <p>videocopilot.net</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ae-cs3-and-4-masks-and-compositions#post-51575 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:01:47 +0000 badmonkey 51575@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey all,</p> <p> </p> <p>I’m a student in media and communication currently doing<br /> production among other things, previously I did live TV production. As I am<br /> still learning (and forever will be!) I have found this site tremendously<br /> helpful and am hoping the community can help or point me to relevant articles.</p> <p> </p> <p>What I want help with is in After Effects. I have some use<br /> with it, though I’m not nearly as comfortable with it as I am in Premiere,<br /> which is not to say I am a pro or anything. So, bare with me as I ask:</p> <p> </p> <ol> <li>What is a composition exactly and what is it<br /> used for exactly? Some tutorials require you to make a composition, others do<br /> not, meaning you throw footage in and use it. Is it like Sequences in premiere,<br /> where, once you create one you can insert the entire sequence in another which<br /> encompasses all the edits as opposed to copying and pasting everything on the<br /> timeline into another sequence? I know that a sequence is created automatically<br /> when you don’t create one.</li> <li>I look at tutorials that require a lot of<br /> masking. I’ve done some, such as replacing what you see on a TV screen, but say<br /> you want to do special effects where you first have an exploding sausage and<br /> want to make it look like an exploding head, I seem to not grasp the concept of<br /> masking nor can I find anything online to show me the basics. I know the pen<br /> tool is used as a mask when you want t draw something specific, but aside from<br /> this I seem to be lost, for example, by not knowing which footage in the above<br /> scenario would you put as number 1 or 2.</li> </ol> <p>Any help is greatly appreciated!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/loaded-videos-are-blurry-and-bezier-masks-have-outlines#post-48748 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:09:49 +0000 XTR-91 48748@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>It's also possible that the editing software preview is shrinking or "compressing" your video so that the preview doesn't slow down while editing. Cyberlink PowerDirector 7 has three preview options: High-res, Normal Preview, and Low-res. What you see in the preview area may not affect the video itself - just the fact that you cannot preview in full quality.</p> <p>Try exporting the video with Sony Vegas and use a media player (or Movie Maker/iMovie) to see what you're getting.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/loaded-videos-are-blurry-and-bezier-masks-have-outlines#post-48747 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:43:18 +0000 HalOfBorg 48747@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Oops -  here is a picture. </p> <p>On the left is the original Xvid video that plays fine, the right is the SVPro Preview in Lagarith codec.</p> <p>[URL=http://www.imagebam.com/image/188bca41155854][IMG]http://thumbnails10.imagebam.com/4116/188bca41155854.gif[/IMG][/URL]</p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/188bca41155854"><img src="http://thumbnails10.imagebam.com/4116/188bca41155854.gif" alt="free image host" /></a></p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/loaded-videos-are-blurry-and-bezier-masks-have-outlines#post-48746 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:40:57 +0000 HalOfBorg 48746@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Whenever I load a video (that looks nice and sharp in any player) into Sony Vegas Pro 8.0c, it is blurry in the Preview window, in "Preview in Player" and in rendered video, even using the Lagarith codec.</p> <p>I can add "Sharpen" to the EventFX, but if I do that then my bezier masks tend to have lines around them.</p> <p>I can find no option anywhere that I can turn on/off to fix this. It does it on two machines running XP Pro/Home.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>