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Quizzler #1 solution: Stabilization plus masking

Quizzler #1 solution: Stabilization plus masking - After Effects Tutorial

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Quizzler #1 solution: Stabilization plus masking

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Our first challenge to you was how would you stabilize this video and then mask it in a way that the Mask Outline was also stable. If you masked the stabilized footage the Mask Outline would bounce around following the corrections created by the stabilization process. Well, there is a couple different ways to solve it. Down in the Quizzler Solutions folder here's one approach. What we did is we broke up the stabilization and masking into two separate comps. First we stabilized the overall video shot and you maybe familiar with this from earlier in this lesson. Once we've stabilized the shot we then nested this composition into a second comp, I'll make sure the composition windows forward and tap the Shift key to open the Comp Mini-Flowchart, click on my next composition in line, I've nested stabilization into mask and here I can mask the stabilized footage. At this point this composition doesn't know the stabilization took place previously. It's treating this nested comp player as if…

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