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problem of track matte with essential property

Community Beginner ,
Jun 15, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

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CleanShot 2023-06-15 at 17.20.37.gif

expect matte with round corner

but ... it doesnt

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Adobe Employee ,
Jun 16, 2023 Jun 16, 2023

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Hi there,

Could you try this by creating a rectangle using the Rectangle tool (Q)? Is there any specific reason you're using a composition to create the alpha matte? Let us know.

 

Thanks,

Ishan

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 10, 2023 Jul 10, 2023

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Essential Graphics runs into all sorts of issues when it comes to track mattes and it drives me crazy. Will there be a fix for it? Some of the occasions it goes wrong seem totally illogical. For example in a project I'm working on now, I'm using a composition as a mask, and for one layer it works as a track matte, and the other layer it does nothing. They are both using Essential Graphic properties. Is there any literature on the limitations of EG?

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 11, 2023 Jul 11, 2023

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Could you share more details about your project? If you could share a screen recording of the issue you're experiencing, we can better understand the problem you're experiencing and share it with the engineering team if needed.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 17, 2023 Jul 17, 2023

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no specific reason, using EG(or any layer) as a track matte just follow the rules Ae always does. 

the alpha from EG when treat as a matte just make me confuse

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Community Expert ,
Jun 18, 2023 Jun 18, 2023

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I'm going to suggest you're pushing Essential Graphics too far and having one version of the comp be the inverse alpha matte of another version of the comp has some built-in conflict that's not obvious.  The rounded EG works with any other layer though.  As Ishan asks, is there a reason you're doing it the way you are?

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 17, 2023 Jul 17, 2023

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just want to re-use comps and keep the numbers of comps as low as possible

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Explorer ,
Aug 28, 2024 Aug 28, 2024

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This post actually points to an important limitation with EG at the moment.
This is just an example of the fact that currently, essential properties aren't being taken into account when we use the layer as a track matte. I've stumbled across this a dozen times by now, constantly wishing the calculations of EG would happen before the track matte.
@Ishan Y I'm really hoping you guys are going to implement this feature at some point. Having to pre-comp a layer in order to "lock in" whatever the essential properties on it changed is quite impractical.
Let me know if it's unclear and I'd be happy to explain further

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Community Beginner ,
Sep 23, 2024 Sep 23, 2024

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I'm having the same problem with Essential Graphics. It would be great to have this feature that @formzuform is talking about.

 

It's really a shame that Essential Graphics doesn't work with Alpha Matte when changing the shape inside the comp. It kinda loses the purpose of what Essential Graphics is.

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Explorer ,
Nov 10, 2024 Nov 10, 2024

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Wow wait what it doesn't work? ADOBE WHAT THE HELL this has been driving me crazy, I thought it was my mistake. I just assumed this feature would work properly and have used it all over a huge project, and now I'm getting crazy glitches in random places that are going to be so hard to fix 🤬

 

Comments like "you're pushing Essential Graphics too far" or "this is an undocumented limitation of Essential Graphics"...it's kind of the responsibility of the software company to make sure their features work before releasing them in production software surely?

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