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Alexis Presa
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December 5, 2018
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Track Matte / Masking Doesn't Retain Colour

  • December 5, 2018
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hello so I am trying to mask this "snow globe" so it comes out of the "base" of the snow.

The original colour of the snow globe is a teal (as seen below):

but as you can see, when I turn on the layer (unhide the layer) it doesn't mask the globe shape as if it were coming out of the base of the globe.

I have a slide here for the layers in case I might be missing something or I'm just straight up dumb.

Final premise: I would like to retain the shape colour while still being able to Track Matte the snow globe as if it were coming out of the base of the globe. Is there a way? Is it because I didn't convert the vector files in Illustrator to shape files in AE? I'm sorry if its an obvious mistake, I'm new to the AE world haha. Thanks for all your help in advance.

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    Correct answer David Arbor

    Track Mattes need to be above the layer they're matting. Your setup should look like this:

    Top layer: "Snow Globe Matte" — a rectangle that covers the entire width of the comp and goes up to the part of the snow that you want the globe to come out of. This layer should be turned off. Also, if you reorder things with your existing layers, rather than start over, make sure the mode to this layer is now set to "None."

    Bottom layer: "Snow Globe" — Your snow globe layer that you want to animate. You don't have to convert this to a native Shape Layer. Set the mode of this layer to "Alpha Inv." so it's revealed when it rotates out of the bounds of the layer.

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    David ArborCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    December 6, 2018

    Track Mattes need to be above the layer they're matting. Your setup should look like this:

    Top layer: "Snow Globe Matte" — a rectangle that covers the entire width of the comp and goes up to the part of the snow that you want the globe to come out of. This layer should be turned off. Also, if you reorder things with your existing layers, rather than start over, make sure the mode to this layer is now set to "None."

    Bottom layer: "Snow Globe" — Your snow globe layer that you want to animate. You don't have to convert this to a native Shape Layer. Set the mode of this layer to "Alpha Inv." so it's revealed when it rotates out of the bounds of the layer.

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    Alexis PresaAuthor
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    December 10, 2018

    Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed. I'll remember to reorder the matte's when I'm doing this type of work.

    Much appreciated.

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