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Compositing tricks

Compositing tricks - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite

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Compositing tricks

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- I wish this video that we composited in After Effects interacted better with the lighting happening back in Cinema 4D. I'll turn off the video for a second. We have some brighter spots where there's specular highlights from the lights and we have some darker areas where there's shadows, including that ambient occlusion that we enabled in our rendering. So in an ideal world, I would use some form of blending mode to blend our video on top of a background rendered out of Cinema and blend it in a way to react to both brighter and darker areas. The trick to do that is to try to make the surface of this video wall close to 50% luminance and then pick a mode that's either going to make the video brighter or dark depending on whether or not that gray wall behind is brighter or darker. So I'll switch back to Cinema 4D. I don't need these multiple views so I'll go back to just looking at view one and I need to create a special texture just for this cap one that we've been working with. I'll…

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