@@BenMarriott thank you so much for the reply, you are one of my biggest inspirations in the mograph industries♡♡♡, thank you for all the work that you do!!
This is so important and always over looked I always forget which way round mattes work to this day. So much so I made a little matte file that sits in most projects. I'm dyspraxic so getting things like this muddled up is so easy.
The production of your videos is superb! All the little quirks help bring across your personality and I'm sure for the less experienced users makes AE seem less daunting and more fun - which is 100% how it should be
Thank you! I've been having so much fun spending more time adding more elements to keep the videos entertaining beyond a screen recording. I'm stoked to hear it's paying off :)
Great tutorial as always, Ben! I see an unsolved case where using Set Matte is a problem. When we are working with shape layers (or any layer with "Continuously Rasterize" on) in a precomp and in the main comp we turn on "Collapse Transformations", the matte effect changes its setting in the comp. For these cases I always have to use Track Matte. :)
Ben these videos are absolute gems! This came at the perfect time too-- I kept wanting to use the Set Matte Effect, I could tell it was superior to track mattes, but I kept running into stretching and pre-comp errors. Haha talk about a perfect video! Thank you, thank you.
only took me 3 and a half minutes to get the Matt joke lol. Didn't know about unticking the stretch matte to fit option great tip! I am generally very frequently confused by the collapse transformations / continually rasterize option in after effects- like what does it actually do?? what situations is it most useful to use it? why does it only work on compositions and not on something like a solid layer? I would love to see a separate video from you explaining it if possible.
"why did he bring out a joey...oh that guy is also matt" - (my extremely tired brain) . lol thank you for this vid. this breaks it down better than any i've seen
you must have gotten ahold of one of my ae projects?! i name my various colored matte solids after famous matts. also, my vignette solid is always named "my cousin vinny".
Thanks, it is clever, i often forget about Pre Compse layer before i use Set Matte Effect, and it brokes main comp when I turn on collapse transformation
You say you need to collapse the comp to make the matte follow the movement but in the previous example you could move the the layer and the matte wasn't folloowing anyway, didn't get that part, sorry
I only get the name of the layers in the matte section. I don't have Aplha Matte, Alpha Inverted, Luma Matte like in the video. How can I see these options? Thanks
Are you crazy rich already? Because you should...man, you are so fkn good! Call me a pokemon, because you certainly evolved me. I can't thank you enough (well, I could actually buy your course...but I'm saving money to do it. I wanna be in your pokedex).
I have 8 solids, i don't want to create an image for each and then create matte. Is there a way to reuse one image? Edit: Ah I see can can precompose and brute force.
Hi, a question for anyone who wouldn't mind helping, I'm having an issue using track matte. My layer order is Circle A, Texture above circle, dupe of Circle A above Texture, and then click 'Alpha Matte' on the Texture Layer. This used to work fine but now the Texture matte isn't contained in Circle A, it still sits over the shape. Anyone have any idea why?
