Comments on: Node based compositing for After Effects Users

By: Chandan Kumar

Chandan Kumar — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:40:06 +0000

Kert, you are the master of the masters, I believe now.Thanks a lot for saving me.

By: Kert Gartner (VFX Haiku Admin)

Kert Gartner (VFX Haiku Admin) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:57:07 +0000

Hey Chandan, you must have accidentally set your update mode to none. There will be a button on the bottom of the screen that says NONE. Click on it until it says SOME and you’ll be back to normal.

By: Chandan Kumar

Chandan Kumar — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:49:50 +0000

Hi Kert, Doing very well in Fusion. Thanks for your help. One weird problem I faced today. While working in Fusion 6, the rectangular border of every part, flow,tools,view etc gone red. Earlier it used to be blue. Now if I import/load any footage and drag it to the viewport, nothing happens. Nothing is working or showing any footage. It reminds me AE when you make the “caps lock” on accidentally, the viewport shows red boarder. Something like this is happening in Fusion also. I made several restarts but to no avail. Please help me.

By: Kert Gartner (VFX Haiku Admin)

Kert Gartner (VFX Haiku Admin) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:50:03 +0000

Hi Chandan, All you have to do is plug in any input into the mask input of any node. So for example, if you have a BG tool, and add a polygon mask to it, you’re essentially creating a track matte using the polygon tool. Every tool in fusion has a mask input (the purple one), so all you have to do is hook up something to that input for it to be masked.

By: Chandan Kumar

Chandan Kumar — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:42:49 +0000

Really Great collection!
I have one query Kert. Like AE, can you tell me how to do “track matt” kind of thing? In AE if we put a black solid on some BG, and if we make the “Alpha Matt” on in the BG’s track Matt option, the black solid part becomes isolated from rest of the BG. So how to achieve this thing in Fusion? Thanks in advanced.

By: Kert Gartner (VFX Haiku Admin)

Kert Gartner (VFX Haiku Admin) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:59:04 +0000

Great! I hope it works out for you

By: Chandan Kumar

Chandan Kumar — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:49:51 +0000

Hi Kert,
I am an AE user and learning Fusion, but I want to learn Fusion in AE style, while having comparison between these two apps. I haven’t started seeing your tuts but I believe that this will really fulfill my expectation as I never found such tutorial on net “learning Fusion in AE style”.Thanks.

By: Kert Gartner (VFX Haiku Admin)

Kert Gartner (VFX Haiku Admin) — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:38:40 +0000

Hi Navin, I’ll see what I can do!

By: Navin

Navin — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:10:36 +0000

Hiye Karie,
I am from India.This is my first time looking into your tuts. Its amazing thanks a lot.I am using after effects for about three years and now switched to Fusion because AE didnt have 3D projection system. Can u please explain about the 3D system in Fusion. Hope you will answer my request

By: Karie

Karie — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:16:03 +0000

Oops, forgot to mention that i found it’s quite difficult and cumbersome to perfectly align my masked blinking caret to the end of the texts. (cuz, when typing plays, the character width is not always the same, i have to make lots of keys to match the caret the last character)
Again, thank you so much for help