From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Compositing the effect

Compositing the effect - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying

Start my 1-month free trial

Compositing the effect

“

I have applied my track to the Radio Waves and used that to animate the Producer Point for the waves. The problem is, is all I am seeing is the Radio Waves effect, I am not seeing the underlying footage, and I want to composite the two together. Well, you might have said to yourself, Chris, you gave us the advice elsewhere to always apply effects to solids. That way it's easier to blend them on top of underlying footage. The problem with that in this case is that the effect needed to be applied to the footage I was tracking in order for the Tracker to be able to pick it as the Motion Target. That's why I started with them together. But it's okay, now that I have got the track done and applied, I can go ahead and isolate the Radio Waves onto its own layer. I can either copy and paste the whole thing onto the solid, or just to be quick and dirty, I can just go ahead and duplicate this entire layer. I am going to take the one underneath, type E for Effects, Delete Radio Waves, and now…

Contents