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January 18, 2019
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Motion tiles are white instead of black

  • January 18, 2019
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I was trying to make a letterbox with motion tile effect since using a solid layer with stencil alpha made it disappear. I used motion tile and tried to control the height but the same effect was happening. I tried this on different versions of AE but the same thing happened to all of them. Can someone please help me, i truly appreciate it.

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    oblivyenAuthor
    Participant
    January 18, 2019

    I tried to do it traditionally by using a solid layer white a black color, turn off constrain proportions on Scale, bring it down to 80% and changing the blending mode to stencil alpha. Instead if it inverting the solid to make a letterbox, it disappear or turning white. I tried to do this even on the latest version of AE but the same thing happen i just want to fix that problem. I get there are alternatives to get a letterbox but i want to fix this problem

    Dave_LaRonde
    Inspiring
    January 18, 2019

    Why fool around with the blend modes?  This is a simple letterbox, and you don't have to.  There are a couple-three suggestions above on how to do it the right way -- I suggest you look at them.

    Unless, of course, there's something you neglected to tell us that requires a blend mode.....

    Andrew Yoole
    Inspiring
    January 18, 2019

    Or, make a black solid and draw a rectangular mask in the centre to reveal the underlying footage.

    Or, download a free letterbox template file and simply drop it on top.  One example of such templates here:

    352 Free Letterbox Templates for Video Editing (720 to 8K)

    Dave_LaRonde
    Inspiring
    January 18, 2019

    huskyan  wrote

    I was trying to make a letterbox with motion tile effect since using a solid layer with stencil alpha made it disappear.

    That makes absolutely no sense.  If you want black letter boxing, make a black solid.  Duplicate it.  Move one up and one down. Boom.  Done.  Couldn't be easier.