Trasnparent masking..again, help. T_T

shosaisyu · Post by **shosaisyu** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:58 pm

This forum has helped me so much, hopefully I will repay it with a couple good AMVs ...aside from that..

Basically I'm trying to mask out Kariya from a scene like so via AE

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/2443/kariyana9.jpg

But i'm going to use these frames of Kariya I have to lipsynch, and lipsynching is a royal pain in the tootie in AE, i'd prefer to work with premiere.

How would I get rid of the "black" section that i've masked out and make it "transparent" so I could easily import the video to premiere and work with it from there?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:10 pm

It isn't transparent already? What happens if you put an image behind that layer?

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:23 pm

If you're wanting to do your editing in Premiere, using masked out frames, the way I prefer to do it is to do the masking in Photoshop. Save each frame as a seperate PSD, then when you import it into Premiere, you select the layer you had masked.

A little note here though. The mask is definitely lacking in definition. When you do the mask in Premiere, you should really get zoomed in close to the image so you define the corners really well. The one you made in AE looks extremely rough and rigid (it looks like he doesn't even have ears).

shosaisyu · Post by **shosaisyu** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:38 pm

If I put the exported masked video on top of my other two layers it completely blocks out the other layers, the black portion is solid. Also his ears are kinda supposed to look like that in that ( though i'll give it to you the right is a bit rough, fixing that )

hydrax · Post by **hydrax** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:09 pm

Turn on the transparency grid by clicking the checkerd button under the preview window or the triangle at the top right and select it. Then put a layer underneath.

shosaisyu · Post by **shosaisyu** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:27 am

So I turn it on like this?

http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rpginev0.jpg

By clicking the crosshair box and then clicking on the checkmark next to "grid"?

And put a layer underneath..? How would that help me? How do I do that..? I'm still new to after effects..

Thanks for the help though. ^^;

Up In Flamez · Post by **Up In Flamez** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:17 pm

No this button
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/3309/affu2.jpg

If the background becomes a white checkered background, then it is transparent. If it stays black, then it is not transparent.

shosaisyu · Post by **shosaisyu** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:57 pm

I turned the transparency grid on, but when I export my movie to avi and re-import in premiere it still covers up the entire portion with the black solid. -_-;; baaahhh

Dark Seraphim · Post by **Dark Seraphim** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:13 am

its not with avi

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:26 am

Is it properly transparent in After Effects and only not working after you export it, or is it not working in AE either?