Using the mask tracker – Adjusting Color and Mood
The mask tracker transforms a mask so that it follows the motion of an object or objects in a movie. It’s similar to the face tracker you used in the …
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Adjusting contrast – Adjusting Color and Mood
The Auto Contrast effect adjusts the overall contrast and mixture of colors. It maps the lightest and darkest pixels in the image to white and black, and then redistributes the …
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Getting started – Adjusting Color and Mood
Lesson overviewIn this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:• Use Scene Edit Detection to create separate layers from a clip.• Adjust hue and saturation to correct color.• Track …
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Extra credit – Using the Roto Brush Tool
Tracking faces The face-tracking feature in After Effects makes it easier to track a face or specific facial features, such as lips or eyes. Previously, tracking a face required roto …
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Freezing your Roto Brush tool results – Using the Roto Brush Tool
You’ve put a fair amount of time and effort into creating the segmentation boundary across the entire clip. After Effects has cached the segmentation boundary so it can recall it …
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Refining the boundary across the span – Using the Roto Brush Tool
You used the Roto Brush tool to create a base frame, which includes a segmentation boundary that divides the foreground from the background. The Roto Brush span appears below the …
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Editing Adobe Premiere Pro clips with After Effects – Using the Roto Brush Tool
You can work with a clip in both Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, moving easily between the two applications as you edit your project.To edit an Adobe Premiere Pro …
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Creating a base frame – Using the Roto Brush Tool
To use the Roto Brush tool to isolate a foreground object, you start by adding strokes to a base frame to identify foreground and background areas. You can start on …
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Getting started – Using the Roto Brush Tool
In this lesson, you’ll use the Roto Brush tool to isolate a bird and rock pool so you can replace the background. To finish up the project, you’ll add an …
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Animating pin positions – Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
The pins are in place. Now you can change them to animate the crab. The Starch pins keep specific areas (in this case, the carapace) from moving too much. When …
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