Tracking and Masking Text

How do i do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sJFGDpUdgA
Is there a tutorial out there ??
Hope for help
Jacob

So as to hide something behind your talent in a shot you need to do Rotoscoping.
See this tutorial from Todd_Kopriva about how to do Motion Tracking and Rotoscoping within AE.
See this tutorial from Mathias Möhl about using his Tracker2Mask script to simplify and speed up your rotoscoping.
See this tutorial about rotoscoping with Mocha.
You may either duplicate your footage and use rotoscoping data to cover some part of the object (text) in between
or create a shape matte (e.g. export Shape Date instead of Tracking Data out of Mocha and apply them onto a Solid) and use its inverted alpha channel to hide some part of the object (text)
See more help about Rotoscoping and Masking

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Please double-check the exact version as displayed in the About box. The new release is an entirely separate version referred to CC 2014.0; it is not merely an update to CC7. That means that if you launch CC7.2.2 and go Help>Updates, it will report that the program is up to date.
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Hi. First and probably only post here. I've got a bit of an issue....
I'm trying to create "snapshots" in my video that are created from masks which are then motion tracked and remain stationary. Here's a video of what i'm talking about... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OhVAduuJc8
The problem I'm running into is that after i motion track the layer, select a null object as the target, duplicate the video layer, mask the object, freeze frame, and pair it to a null layer, the object does not remain stationary as the ones in the video do. Instead it moves WITH the null object and I cant figure out why. I've gotten a tutorial from the guy who made the video, however it's private so i don't know if you guys will be able to see it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0QLrMCcGM
Either way, i followed the tutorial exactly and still to no avail. Are my settings messed up or what exactly is going on? Ive successfully done this project before but now that i'm using CS5, i'm running into these issues. If anyone has any advice i'd gladly try it out and return with the results.
Thanks so much for trying to help me out.

Yeah the null is still moving. Will freezing it lock the mask into place while still allowing the footage to play through? And how would i go about "freezing the null"?
I just dont understand how this person does it in the tutorial, and the mask remains in place. I know you probably can't watch the tutorial cause the user has it set as private, but as far i know his mask stays in place, but uses the null (while still moving) as a tracking device to keep the mask from floating out of control as the camera moves through the shot.
Sorry if I'm making this rather confusing. It's difficult to explain.
Maybe it might be easier to explain how you would obtain the result from the video I've posted? Keep in mind I dont have CameraTracker.

Procedure for Tracking and Masking??

Thanks for taking the time to help out. I am trying to mask a person moving in and out of frame.
1) 3 minutes into view, a person appears who needs to be masked.
2) I select elliptical mask and begin tracking. (All good)
3) Person walks out of frame for several minutes. Tracking stopped and I move the mask outside the video screen (????)
4) Person reappears and I move mask in place and begin tracking again and repeat process. so far so good (I think)
after completing editing I export the video. When viewing the video, a pixellated mask appears in the first frame of the video dead centre (aghhhh!), 3 minutes before anyone needs to be masked.
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Brianne

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I'm in the process of creating a textual watermark for my photos in photoshop but have come across a big problem. I am using the horizontaly text mask tool but I cannot rotate nor center (both horizontally and vertically) my text before turning it into a layer. If I rotate and center the text after putting it into a new layer it wont work since the text will move and leave the writing embossed onto the picture. Any help is kindly appreciated !

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2. The BC Europe IP (54.240.14.45) is blacklisted here: UCEPROTECTL2 (possible, but if you actually look it's not the IP itself, but another IP on the same network, so unlikely)
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I am trying to use motion tracking to have text follow a section of the background.The text box follows the motion path, but the text just sits there. What am I doing wrong?

Motion basically looks at the the source footage and it's timing (in the timing section of the Inspector) when analyzing for tracking. Filters are basically ignored by the tracker. Retiming actions, like time re-mapping, or retiming behaviors that are applied before the tracker should be used by the tracker. Did you change the timing after doing the tracking? If so this would also require you to re-track the shot. Understanding that you found a workaround, describing the effects you applied would help to explain why you ran into problems.
Cheers!

Photoshop CS4 always crash (how may I track and fix an APPCRASH) ???

Hello
My Photoshop CS4 always crash when happens these conditions:
1. Open a file picture or create a file. (FILE 1)
2. Import another file picture... (FILE 2)
3. Copy FILE 2 in FILE 1
4. Now FILE 2 appear inside a layer...
5. Move with the mouse the layer corresponding to the FILE 2
CRAAAAAAASHHHH
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Always happens the same, always, always.
It is so annoying, that don't let me work and I am working right now with Photopaint (think I don't like).
I would need your help to tell em how may I track and fix an APPCRASH.
Do we have an application in windows that allow me to detect the causes of an APPCRASH?
Or is this just because the application is failing?
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Signature of the problem:
Nombre de evento de problema:    APPCRASH
Nombre de la aplicación:    Photoshop.exe
Versión de la aplicación:    11.0.1.0
Marca de tiempo de la aplicación:    499bf9b5
Nombre del módulo con errores:    StackHash_fd00
Versión del módulo con errores:    0.0.0.0
Marca de tiempo del módulo con errores:    00000000
Código de excepción:    c0000005
Desplazamiento de excepción:    65637275
Versión del sistema operativo:    6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Id. de configuración regional:    3082
Información adicional 1:    fd00
Información adicional 2:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Información adicional 3:    fd00
Información adicional 4:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional information about the problem:
Id. de depósito:    1164041060
The texts are in Spanish sorry, I'm from Spain.
May someone help me to track and trace this bug and how to solve it?
Thanks

Prior to the subscription models—and of course that includes CS4—the Photoshop license was platform specific, either Windows or Mac, but not both. Your CS4 Windows serial number ("key") will never work on the Mac version.
CS4 is out of the loop as far as requesting a platform swap for a nominal fee. It is no longer supported by Adobe in any way. A platform swap required the destruction of your PC version, so you could not use both the PC and the Mac versions.
For a time, you could have used CS4 to upgrade to CS6 for about $200, but that time window has closed by now. Now you would have to own a legitimate version of CS5 in order to be eligible to buy an upgrade to CS6.
You can of course buy the full version of Photoshop CS6 Extended for $1,000 from the Adobe store:
Creative Suite 6
Alternatively, you can subscribe to Photoshop CC and Photoshop CC2014 on a monthly basis without ever owning the software. If you stop paying monthly, the software ceases to work.
The cheapest subscription is the Photography plan, which includes both Photoshop and Lightroom for $10 a month.
These are user forums; you are not addressing Adobe here. To contact Adobe support directly:
Click on the link below, and after that click on "Still need Help? Contact us."
Then on the next page, click Chat
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Timeline - Cannot Move Tracks and Display Problem

I've created about a ten-minute timeline that I'd really prefer not to toss out because a lot of work went into creating parts of it and getting the timing right with the music, etc. When I first open the project in Premiere Elements, everything seems okay - my timeline plays with all transitions and I can scroll around in the timeline. However, I appear to have done something where whenever I click and drag to try to move a track, the timeline goes insane. I get a circle with a line through it for a cursor and a blank tooltip window, whether I try to drag the track horizontally or vertically. After that, while the timeline will still play, the timeline itself gets all wonky in its display, almost as if the video isn't refreshing on it. (It's kind of like the timeline has crashed.) I attached a screenshot of what it looks like. Whenever I move my cursor to the edge of the timeline, the timeline scrolls in that direction.
I'm running Premiere Elements 7 Educational Version on a Core 2 Duo laptop with 3GB RAM, an Intel 965 graphics chip (latest Intel drivers are installed), and Vista Business 32-bit. The clips are from a standard DV cam (not HD), and there are some PNG format stills and MP3 sounds mixed in there as well. There are three active A/V tracks. I think that's all the relevant information, but ask me if you need more.
Can anyone tell me what I've done and/or how to fix this?

Good morning every one!
The bad news: As expected the problem does still occur. The good news: I was able to track it down to one clip in the timeline.
To save others time, I will described what I have evaluated quite detailed in the following paragraphs...
As it seemed to me that deactivating the Windows indexing service made the usage of PrE more stable I thought that maybe file locks would cause the trouble. So I verified this by opening the project in PrE, writing and executing a small Java application that puts an exclusive file lock on one of the files from the project and tried to move the according clip in the timeline. It worked without any problems and the known symptoms did not occur. So we can put aside the file locks.
Afterwards I tried to reproduce the problem by playing around with the scene that caused problems last week. I tried by moving around the video clips and the problem did not occur. Then I remembered my statement I have made earlier, that the problems seemed to occur as I started to work with titles and music clips -- and bingo: I have three music clips in my "soundtrack" track and one of them seems to cause the whole trouble. After I have clicked on this specific music clip, the problem occurs and it is no longer possible to move anything in the timeline and the strange behaviour regarding the automatic scrolling when the cursor is at the left/right etch is activated.
It was easily reproducable: Restart PrE, open my project, move a video clip to verify that moving clips works, click on the specific music clip and the problem occurs. I have tried this several times and each time the problem occured. When I clicked on one of my other two music clips everything was fine -- same for the video clips I tried. So in my case it seems to be this single clip.
OK, what's specific regarding this clip: All my music files are placed on a share on my Windows home server (in contrast to the video footage which is located on the local HD). So I moved the "dangerous" music file to the local HD, changed the path to the file with a text editor directly in the PrE project file (which is a simple XML file) and started up PrE again. I verified that PrE takes the file from the local HD (server was down), but the problem did still occur. So it is not a network issue.
The next specific thing is, that this music file is the only file in my project which is a .wma-file -- the others are .mp3-files. So I did three things:
At first I downloaded the project file provided by SQFreak2 in this thread and checked whether he is also using .wma-files. The result: He does not use them.
As the second thing I again changed my project file in the text editor: I changed the path of the music clip to some other .mp3-file. Afterwards I opened up PrE with that project file, used the playback to verify that the other music file is referenced by the clip instead of the original wma-file and then tried to move the clip -- again the symptoms occured.
As the last step I created a new project, added the "problematic" wma-file, placed it on the "soundtrack" track and afterwards tried to move it. The result: No problems at all.
So it neither seems to be a generic problem with wma-files nor does it seem to be a file-specific problem at all.
Lets summarize the things from above: File locks do not cause any trouble. In my project a single audio clip seems to cause the problem. The problem seems to be caused by the clip and not the file referenced by the clip (no matter whether local or server based, wma or mp3, the problem occurs in every case).
What I have learned? Well, I am not sure. But in the meanwhile I am quite sure, that it hasn't to do anything with hardware and drivers, but that we are dealing with a bug in PrE that occurs in specific project cirumstances.
This morning I have got some additional ideas I would like to try to track the problem down (e.g. the problematic clip has a transition for a fade out in the end [when I did this I didn't knew, that a fade out could be easily achieved in the clip's properties] -- I will try to remove this one and look what will happen).
P.S.: In one of my earlier posts I stated the assumption that the problem occurs as soon as I move the mouse cursor over the vertical scroll bar of the timeline -- but this is definitely not the case.

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Okay so my teacher wanted us to use 3d tracking and then put in objects to texts in the video footage. I did the 3D analyzing and then put down my target on the screen. He then said that after the null was used for the tracking marker that I can put an image in it and snap that image to the null by pressing command. I'm on a PC at home. I'm sorry but I despise Mac. Since I don't have a command button and we use CC in school but at home I have CS6 I donno how to snap the picture to the null in CS6. Please help I'm freaking out.

Alt and Option are the matching keys on a PC and a Mac
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So I'm putting a brochure together in InDesign and I'm trying to create an effect that I believe could be done easily with a clipping mask as I understand them to work in Illustrator. But this is not working like I hoped. The basic idea is that I'm taking a text box and wanting to create a mask around a specific section of the text so that it cuts through different characters. However, the text box will retains its properties and the text is fitted to the new box. How can I create a mask that doesn't change the shape?
Specifically what I'm trying to do is have an unusual portion of text a different color to fit with the color scheme of the background. Right now the text and background have the same color a certain area and I want to have that areas text a different color. It cuts through the characters at odd angles so I can't gerry-rig something. Perhaps theres a better way than a clipping path?

Here is what I'm trying to acheive. I can do it in Illustrator but I need InDesign to make this brochure. The color scheme is generally the same. I'm trying to use specific colors aswell. I'm not sure how to get exact CMYK values with blending modes. Also the blending would have to only effect the text and not the background color. It was something I tried but couldn't get the result I was going for. Now I realized I had wrong terminology and this might help clarify. I made a clipping mask in Il which masks out an area. I think think in ID it's a clipping path which creates a new path (causing the text to fit to the path) around the text. Hopefully this sheds more light on my conundrum and perhaps someone knows a way?

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Hi everyone
I have a relatively simple video clip of an object rotating. Its shot straight on, no fancy moves or anything just rotating. I've rotobrushed it and it looks good on a plain white background. I'm animating a color shift such that as the object rotates its top 1/3rd part changes colors. The area changing colors has crinkly edges but I've used rotobrush to isolate that as well, no problems there. I duplicated the original clip, rotobrushed the duplicate to separate it from the background. The original clip fades into pure white leaving the rotobrushed layer visible. I duplicated the original again, rotobrushed the top 1/3rd in the same way. I created a new layer with just a color adjustment effect and used the rotobrushed top 1/3rd as a track-mask for the animated color adjustment layer.
What I want to do is run a color gradient that shifts colors same as the top part but bleeds into the lower part that does not change colors.
So, is it possible to use a regular mask for the gradient and do a difference operation with the rotobrush of the object so the gradient only effects the area below the top 1/3rd which changes color ? I know I can do it with regular masks, but I can't figure out how to do it with rotobrush masks. I want to be able to do intersections and unions.
any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
-AK

Wrong thinking. You need to get away from masks vs. Rotobrush. In the end, all you do is create matte channels and therein lies the answer - any channel can be mangled with effects, possibly requiring to be extracted and isolated first by pre-rendering or pre-comping. RB and masks are just means to an end/ tools, nothing more.
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Hi, I am trying to edit a long document in InDesign which has already had a lot of custom tracking and leading applied to it in order to correct the "widows and orphans" in it. I want to remove all those custom changes in order to edit the text, and then reapply them as I reset the text in InDesign afterwards. Can someone tell me what is the easiest and quickest way of identifying and removing those custom changes (mainly tracking and leading) in InDesign?

I want to remove all those custom changes in order to edit the text, and then reapply them as I reset the text in InDesign afterwards. Can someone tell me what is the easiest and quickest way of identifying and removing those custom changes (mainly tracking and leading) in InDesign?
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Hi all.
I'm trying to do a poster with a sort of graffiti writings on a wall but I can't reach for any kind of realism. I'd like to see the writing on the wall like it was actually written.
I'm using a real photo behind the writings but the image and the text don't connect together, it is simply like a copy-past work. I don't know if I was clear because English is not my first language.. the effect I'd like to reach is like if the writings were printed on the wall.. but the wall is a photo so I don't know if they can be joined together..

Sounds like you are looking to make the writing realistic. That is better done in photoshop. Some tisp you can sue
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If your wall is made of brick for example, you can save a grayscale imageg of your weall and use displace in photoshop to distort the writng so it looks liek it is follwoing a bump mapo of the grayscale imaeg you made
you can use a grayscale of your wall as a mask on your writing. Use a curve to brighten the mask, so most of the writing shows through, except for some edges and such you want to roughen up

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