Can you put a color tint on a mask?

hi marco

in answer to your question you dont colour the mask, but colour the footage that the mask is revealing. So in your example you would need two footage layers each with their own colour tint, and a mask on each layer revealing it.

However i was wondering, were they masks moving about or simply shapes moving over footage that coloured the footage below? In which case you simply make a shape form the shape tool, give it a colour, and then set the opacity to below 100% so you can see through it, and /or change its blending mode to it interacts with the footage layer below.

Hope this helps

adam

hi,

well its very hard to tell without seing the footage but i would guess...

copy the footage layer as many times as the people you want to reveal so say 4 in this case.

on footage layer 1, either crop of mask the footage to only revela the person you want to show. Then add a colourize filter to the footage to colour it. or you could add a coloured shape over it at a knocked back opactiy.

Repeat these steps for all people and there you go

hopw this helps

adam

what you have to imagine is that the mask is not the color but a hole in one image revealing a layer below.

imagine placing two piece of coloured card in a pile. the top one black.
underneath this balck one you have a red one.
all the cards have a picture of men walking towards camera.

when you are masking a layer you are pretty much revealing what is underneath that first layer (black card). if what is underneath is the red card when you put a mask over the black card you will see a hole through it revealing the red card below

if the red cards image is the same as the black card but in a different color it will give the illusion that it is the mask which is coloured but in fact it is a compltely new image which you are seeing thru this mask.

Hey Marco,

What I would do is make your mask out shapes and then apply it to your clip as an image mask. Animate the shapes however you would like with keyframes or behaviors. Make the fill color of the shape whatever you want your tint to be (these colors can be different for each shape if you like - the lower the saturation the less intense the tint will be).
Drag the LAYER the shapes are in to the image well for the mask source. Since the layer's visibility will turn off, just turn that back on. Now apply your tint by changing the blend mode to multiply. If you change the blend mode on the shapes in the layer, the tints will combine to make new colors when the overlap. If you change the blend mode of the layer itself to multiply (from combine) the shapes and colors will respect their stacking order within the layer when they overlap.

That was kinda all over the place, but I think your answer is in there. Search the Motion manual found under the Help menu if you aren't familiar with any of the features I'm talking about.

Zak

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