Mask Tracking and Color Grading in CC 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at 11:51AM The After Effects mask tracker combines with the new effects masking features in After Effects and Premiere Pro CC 2014 to enable powerful color grading on a single clip. This simplifies layering color corrections with Red Giant Colorista II and turns your NLE into an incredibly powerful color grading station.
This is super cool, and will absolutely influence the future of Red Giant’s development. For most filmmakers I know, color correction needs to be an integrated part of creative editorial—without sacrificing any power.
Watch to the end of the tutorial for some great news about a longstanding bug with Premiere and Magic Bullet Looks!
Stu
Dan Wilk of Adobe helpfully pointed out that you can add points to the polygon mask in Premiere (not the ellipse, just the polygon) by CMD + clicking (CONTROL + click on Windows). Nice!
Reader Comments (8)
Ah so now I get it. This is pretty cool!
Great, thanks Stu! What type of Mac are the CC apps running on? You seem to be getting excellent performance.
I'm on a 27-inch iMac, late 2013, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M. It's great, and half the price of a Mac Pro.
Awesome tutorial, Stu! The new features in CC 2014 and Colorista II are definitely going to make things easier, quicker and better. And I'm so glad that the bug with Looks and adjustment layers has been fixed. That was extremely annoying and painful, so looking forward to being able to take advantage of that too. Thanks again!
Finally watched this. Awesome.
I should definitely spend more $$$ on software, it's too easy to get hooked by hardware purchases (cameras, lenses, etc), but time is money too and software saves time.
Right now I'm finishing a one-man project with around 50 hours of VFX. Around half of those I've spent rotoscoping stuff. CC and its mask tracker would probably have saved me around 20 hours. This is my leisure time so it's hard to put a price on it, but the next time I approach such a project I may just hit the piggy bank, rotoscoping is no fun.
I posted this in the forum too, but does this mean that it's cool to start onlining from the NLE?
When did After Effects get a planar tracker as part of the program (and not just in Mocha)? I've googled this but I can't find any information.
Today I released that 50-hours-of-VFX short that I mentioned above. Hell, that was a lot of rotoscoping...
Dragon Age Fan Film, by Cameko Sam
Next time I do something like this it will definitely be with CC.