Join Ian Robinson for an in-depth discussion in this video Precise compositing with variable-width feathered masks, part of After Effects CC 2013 Essential Training.
The Feather Mask Tool will give you the ability to adjust the softness of the edge…of a mat at a very specific point in time. Actually, any specific point in time.…You can create feathers all over mask past.…Now in this project, we're going to create a mask around our soccer ball.…And if you grab the current time indicator and scrub through the project you can see…there's a fair amount of motion blur on that ball.…So we'll start just by creating a mask around the ball.…Press the Q key on your keyboard to grab the shape tool.…
Keep pressing that Q key until you get to the ellipse tool.…Now make sure you have layer one selected in the timeline and then click and drag,…holding down shift as you drag. You can make the mask a little bit larger…than the soccer ball, that way we can easily re-position it later.…After you've drawn out your mask, go ahead and press v to grab your selection tool.…Since all the mask vertices are already selected, I can go ahead and click on one…of the vertices and just re-position the mask.…
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Ian Robinson
Updated
11/3/2014Released
6/17/2013- Video terminology
- Creating your first composition
- Using layers, masks, blend modes, and track mattes
- Parenting objects
- Building complex objects with Pre-compose
- Exploring the ray-traced 3D renderer
- Understanding the order of effects
- Creating 3D projects from Illustrator files
- Lighting a scene
- Animating type on a path
- Using Keylight for green-screen footage
- Rotoscoping
- Archiving projects
Skill Level Appropriate for all
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Q: This course was updated on 6/18/2014. What changed?
A: We added new movies to the "Fundamentals of After Effects" chapter, reorganized and re-recorded the "Up and Running" and "Keying Green Screen Footage" chapters, and added new movies on Color Finesse 3 and masking individual effects.
Q: When I try to open a project file, After Effects tells me I need to update my system, since the file was made with version 13.0. But I already installed the most recent After Effects update. Why can't I open the project?
Q: This course was updated on 11/03/2014. What changed?
A: We updated 25 movies to reflect changes to the Creative Cloud 2014 release of After Effects. This includes the new optimized user interface and enhanced Cineware and CINEMA 4D Lite pipeline. The new movies are labeled with the "(CC 2014.1)" tag.
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Adobe After Effects
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What is After Effects?1m 8s
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 8s
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Using the exercise files1m 19s
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Relinking missing footage1m 54s
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Video terminology4m 24s
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1. The Fundamentals of After Effects
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Understanding compositions10m 35s
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Building animation6m 29s
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Working with effects7m 5s
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Introduction to 3D8m 45s
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Understanding how to render6m 48s
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2. Up and Running with After Effects
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Importing elements5m 53s
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Organizing projects3m 51s
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Animating with keyframes9m 59s
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Output techniques4m 46s
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3. Understanding Compositions
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Understanding Pre-compose4m 21s
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4. Building Compositions with Layers
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Defining layers5m 4s
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Creating type layers7m 38s
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Using track mattes4m 49s
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5. Creating Animation
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Understanding animation6m 20s
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The power of parenting5m 27s
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Using null objects6m 46s
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6. Using Effects
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Generating a scribble effect8m 12s
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Using adjustment layers5m 52s
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Adding gradients and glows4m 30s
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Saving pan and scan presets5m 20s
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Masking individual effects3m 55s
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7. Jumping into 3D
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Intro to cameras (CC 2014.1)10m 50s
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Intro to cameras7m 51s
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Animating cameras (CC 2014.1)11m 11s
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Animating cameras12m 39s
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Creating depth of field6m 48s
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8. Introducing CINEMA 4D Lite
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3D foundations (CC 2014.1)9m 49s
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3D foundations10m 43s
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Applying deformers5m 59s
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Understanding materials7m 32s
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Lighting your scene (CC 2014.1)11m 20s
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Lighting your scene8m 14s
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Animating in CINEMA 4D Lite6m 51s
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Working with CINEWARE9m 38s
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9. Exporting and Rendering
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10. Exploring Type and Shape Animation
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Creating type animators8m 52s
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Animating shape layers8m 45s
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11. Repairing and Retiming Video
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Retiming with Time Remapping8m 56s
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12. Project: Keying Green-Screen Footage
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Cleaning up keys with masks3m 41s
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13. Project: Rotoscoping
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Rotoscoping with paths6m 47s
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Introducing the Roto Brush5m 58s
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Refining the Roto Brush6m 12s
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Using the Refine Edge tool7m 50s
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14. Project: Tracking
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Solving cameras7m 19s
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15. Media Management
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Archiving your projects3m 50s
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Removing unused footage1m 25s
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Conclusion
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What's next?2m 23s
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