this entire mini series feels like you've been clueless to after effects in the past, tried to look at tutorials but was always disappointed at their low quality and decided to make better ones yourself, and personally i think you nailed every single one, and i repeat my question i asked before, where were you a few years ago man, youtube just got better because of this
This tutorial is underrated and deserves more exposure. You basically debunk the Set Matte functions. Keep up with the good job!! and I look forward to your tutorials in the many other functions in AE! Cheers!
From the whole (wonderful) series, this is my favourite because of it’s power to remove the need for multiple copies of the same matte to affect multiple layers. Definite face-palm when learning about this effect. 👏
Very important effect that I am using instead of track matte. Thank you for detail insights about it. ıt is a very strange effect especially for vectors layers too. Thank you, Jack :)
tons of help Jake! Thanls, now my "mask" use can be smarter intead of using many masks and many layer styles. The "contiuosly rasterize" topic that you said was new to me in the use of mattes.
Okay but surely instead of the whole precomp solution, you can just right click on the Illustrator file and go Create>Vector to Shape Layer. Or would this still cause issues?
I feel like everything achieved with Set Matte you can achieve with Track Matte, perhaps a bit cleaner, limiting redundancies in your timeline and such. Any specific use cases you've stumbled upon where Set Matte saved your biscuits or made things a lot easier as opposed to Track Matte?
Great tutorials 🔥 I have a question: I have a video with text inside it. I want to highlight the text in a specific time (glow, brighten, color gradient ..etc.) I tracked the text inside the video with Mocha CC and apply it in a solid layer as a mask and tried to apply effects to that solid layer. But I have a problem with the effects especially with gradient ramp cc. The gradient effetct not follow the position of the mask. I tried to parrent the solid layer to the Mocha plannar data with a null object but then the AE layer panel look like a mess. What is the cleanest and right way to apply a effect that follow the movement?
Hello. I'm trying (into a script) to find a way to tell a layer that has the "Set Matte" effect, which other layer to take in its drop down menu. I'm looking in After-Effects Scripting Guide and Set Matte isn't even in there.
Hey Jake, great video as always! I have a question. How do you work around to fix pixels showing around objects/layers you're using a set matte effect?
@@JakeInMotion Thanks for replying! I'm not sure if can I explain it through text but I'll try. When using set matte with rasterized layer, there's always a contour of pixels around the image. I know I can kinda "fix" it using Simple Choker, but sometimes the Simple Choker messes other things in the comp. So I was wondering if you have another way to fix these unwanted pixels around the object. Example: imgur.com/a/rmvDTIr
@@nicolas.kannov I think the simple choker is probably the right idea. Surely you can set it once and reuse the effect on every layer that needs it? My suggestion is to apply a stroke with the same colour as the fill but that seems like as much effort.
@@_hunu I was doing some more tests here and by simply changing the "Take matte from layer" in the Set Matte effect to "effects and mask" helped a lot. The problem I have is not really about effort, it's just that sometimes I don't want my object/layer to shrink because that messes with the design of some parts. I haven't thought about applying a stroke with the same color, I'll keep that in mind now. Thank you Hunu!
Hi Jake, I have already been finding this useful, thanks. In Photoshop you can load an alpha channel as a selection, then stroke that selection. I am trying to think of a way of achieving this in After Effects. Set Matte essentially loads the selection, but is there an easy, controllable way of changing this to outlines? I'm sure there must be, right?
Sure! You could use a layer style stroke, for one. Another way would be to add a simple choker to the layer and set it to a negative value, add a CC Composite effect set to Stencil Alpha with RGB only unchecked, and then add a fill effect to control the color.
@@JakeInMotion When using Layer Style>Stoke, one still needs to cut all the middle bits out. I find the choking method tends to give an "inky corner" look to the resulting strokes (which isn't always desirable). I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some obvious wizardry. Cheers man.
