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Jan 27, 2010 12:46 PM in response to M´Peteby stuckfootage,This library consists of .png files with an alpha channel, right?
And you want to use it as a foreground?
The Over node should work fine, or if you're using the MultiLayer node
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Jan 27, 2010 3:18 PM in response to stuckfootageby M´Pete,Some of the files are .png, and some are .jpg.
The .jpg files have the troubles I described above in both Motion and Shake (why??).
The .png files work in Motion. In Shake they work with the the MultiLayer node, but not the Over node...
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Jan 27, 2010 4:54 PM in response to M´Peteby stuckfootage,M´Pete wrote:
The .jpg files have the troubles I described above in both Motion and Shake (why??).
My guess is that the jpegs are just preview files with no alpha channel:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-12.html
When you FileIn one of the jpegs, and double-click the node to see it in the Viewer,
what happens when you type "a" while the cursor is in the Viewer?
Do you see an alpha mask? Probably not. -
Jan 28, 2010 12:41 AM in response to stuckfootageby M´Pete,You´re right - no alpha channel.
Hmm...
The whole point of the images is to blend them with other images... The one I`m using is the same as this one used in the following video (TC: 03:16).
http://www.videocopilot.net/products/action2/tutorials/compositing_breakdown/ -
Jan 28, 2010 3:10 PM in response to M´Peteby stuckfootage,M´Pete wrote:
in the following video (TC: 03:16).
http://www.videocopilot.net/products/action2/tutorials/compositing_breakdown/
Now I see what's going on! To figure it out, I did screenshots
of the background street scene and the the cracks, so I could copy the effect.
In both FileIn nodes, turn on AutoAlpha.
Attach the background scene FileIn to Multilayer input 1.
Attach the cracks jpg FileIn to Multilayer input 2.
Set L2's composite mode to Overlay.
Set L2_opacity to 0.911. -
Jan 28, 2010 4:11 PM in response to stuckfootageby M´Pete,AutoAlpha to the rescue
Thanks you so much! -
Jan 28, 2010 4:12 PM in response to M´Peteby M´Pete,Thank you so much + Thanks=
"Thanks you so much!" -
Jan 29, 2010 7:23 AM in response to stuckfootageby M´Pete,One last problem...
The image now blends perfectly, but the border/edges of the image is visible as a black (or white) box. Not in a in-your-face kind of way, but it's still visible...
I tried making a mask and feathering it. That got rid of the border, but the feathering part became a darker area, and just made things worse. Without feathering the mask got the same kind of border as the image had before I masked it.
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Feb 17, 2010 6:16 PM in response to M´Peteby Emsane,Pete did u get to fix that border/edges of the image problem? I'm having that same problem. -
Apr 27, 2010 12:57 PM in response to Emsaneby M´Pete,Hey.
I´ve found a workaround. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but at least it works!
Use the "template" provided by Stuckfootage on this thread, and then create a RotoShape on the MultiLayer itself. This means that the MultiLayer in reality works as an Over-node, consisting of my background movie and the image on top.
The MultiLayer will then go into L1 of a new MultiLayer, and work as the bottom layer of my comp.