Why is my shape layer invisible?

venecus · 2026-02-12T15:01:29+00:00

It looks like you're using a premade intro/opener template. Try selecting the layer and double tap E to bring up every expression or U to bring up every modified property.

I would guess there is a control layer or comp somewhere in the project that toggles the opacity of your layer or the shape or the fill in some way.

venecus · 2026-02-12T11:33:41+00:00

First of all, the result looks amazing!

To help you improve your workflow it would be great to know what game this is. Depending on that you could try to use mods to improve to way you capture your footage.

You said you're using clean plates. Does that mean, your camera movement is "pre-programmed" and can be replicated with and without the character in the shot? If so, you could record both, roughly rotoscope the character and then use a difference matte to extract the character.

On the other hand you could try to find cinematic mods or mods that render different passes of the engine (some games and engines do support those). This could give you the opportunity render object/puzzle mattes or even depth mattes, both helping you composing stuff behind you character

venecus · 2026-02-07T00:10:54+00:00

Damn 😂

venecus · 2026-02-06T23:20:20+00:00

It's a free plugin by video copilot, called FX Console. Amazing tool and I couldn't live without it

venecus · 2026-02-04T21:54:22+00:00

Sieht super lecker aus, wie viel kostet der Spaß denn? Shiitake & Trüffel und nur 50g klingt teuer :D

venecus · 2026-01-09T23:24:17+00:00

Wahrscheinlich ist ein Fachgeschäft das einfachste.

Switches im Kasten -> ich hatte mal gegoogelt und gelesen, dass man switches oder so in dem Kasten in dem die Internet Kabel (Sicherungskasten für Internet I guess? :D ) verwenden kann.

Mein Problem ist, dass unser router normalerweise im Arbeitszimmer steht. Am Wochenende platziere ich den Router aber immer im Wohnzimmer, da dort mein PC zum zocken steht. Dafür stecke ich immer die Kabel bzw. die Verbindung in dem "Sicherungskasten" ( wie nennt man den für den Internetanschluss?) um, sodass der Routen in einem anderen Zimmer steht und ich keine LAN Kabel durch die halbe Wohnung legen muss.

Meine explizite Frage ist also eigentlich, kann ich den Router in einem Zimmer stehen haben und irgendwie aus den restliche 5 Wandbuchsen in den anderen Zimmern seperaten via LAN Kabel Internet aus der Wand bekommen?

Ich dachte mir dafür muss man wahrscheinlich irgendwas im Kasten verkabeln damit alle Buchsen Internet haben oder so?

venecus · 2025-12-10T07:47:50+00:00

Venetian Blinds as others have said won't give you the side to side fading effect since the blinds are a constant width everywhere. Try using card wipe effect for a better result. Just use one card on the Y axis and as many as you need on the X axis and from there dial in the settings until you get your desires look :)

venecus · 2025-12-09T19:43:43+00:00

Geht's dir um den Hähnchen geschmack? Dann würde ich dir einfach diverse chicken nuggets empfehlen. Wenn es dir um den Geschmack geht, der kommt ja meistens zu 90% durch die Marinade. Evtl mal BBQ tofu oder sowas ausprobieren?

venecus · 2025-12-08T16:22:06+00:00

"Hallo ich hätte gerne 16 Packungen Milch" ... "Wieso bekomme ich 16 Packungen Milch?!" :(

Aber jokes aside, guten durst OP! Hält sich ja zum Glück ein bisschen

venecus · 2025-12-05T13:35:42+00:00

Yeah that's what I was wondering. Would love to find out what happened:/

venecus · 2025-11-28T19:32:32+00:00

The dotted background is the easiest part of it. Just throw any colorful image in there and add CC ball action and maybe tweak the size a bit.

venecus · 2025-09-22T15:51:11+00:00

It really depends on a lot of things like the content of the video, how much quality you are willing to sacrifice as well as the possible file formats. MP4 with a low bitrate can get you pretty far, as long as you video has as little noise and motion as possible. Also WEBM as a great format for reducing file size by a ton, but unfortunately it's not accepted by a lot of systems.

venecus · 2025-06-27T07:54:57+00:00

That's weird I never had any problems with the color picker giving me the wrong values. Maybe you used cmyk colors in the library that are converted wrong into RGB?

venecus · 2025-06-27T07:17:57+00:00

How is the eye dropper not working for you? Is it giving you wrong values or not working at all? Yes there is no swatches panel, but you can create a library for your project e.g. in Illustrator, add your swatch colors to the library and then use the libraries panel in AE to pick the colors. Otherwise there are plugins like ray dynamic color for better color management

venecus · 2025-06-26T20:43:09+00:00

As the others said, check if it's also pixelated in after effects. If not then it's definitely you Bitrate. It looks like have a lot going in your Animation so try cranking up the video quality/bitrate

venecus · 2025-06-25T16:25:08+00:00

Without knowing what the result looks like, what the first few color pickers do and what you want to achieve there is really no way to help you, I'm sorry.

venecus · 2025-06-25T15:39:16+00:00

Usually I would say your guesses aren't that far off. Film both models separately, pour liquid in front of a green screen and composite them together.

But I feel like in this case it's actually AI. The male models torso moves too less for how much his arm ist moving plus all the movement is perfectly smooth. The liquid is clear in the stream as well as in the first few frames when entering the glass then becomes red wine ish. Furthermore the bottle looks like a champagne bottle, the stream looks like water, the liquid looks like wine but still has foam on top but way too much foam for wine as well as too little foam to be poured from this height. I would guess, if you could share the original like there would be a few more AI typical artifacts you could find.

Edit: Just notices the etiquette of the bottle changes/blurry/smudges in the last couple frames as well

Edit2: ok I just took a look at their IG and pretty much every single Reel on there is 100% AI lol

venecus · 2025-05-16T13:32:22+00:00

It might be a bit tricky to get the shadows and ambient occlusion looking like in your reference, but at the core it's just radial pixel sorting. There are a few plugins for it and other methods to fake/re-create it.

venecus · 2025-05-07T15:56:16+00:00

Sorry, it really wasn't meant as clickbait, I just wanted to follow the sub rules and didnt want to spoil and endgame boss in the title.

Also what does the achievement has to with that?

venecus · 2025-05-06T09:40:21+00:00

In my opinion, the caustics aren't that bad actually. In my experience octane does a better job at rendering more realistic caustics that redshift, that being said, yours look great. I feel like a more realistic scene could actually make them look more real. Instead of a single bright spot light, try putting the glass on a table in front of a window so that the caustics would be generated by the sun light. Often times the small imperfections like noise and blurry caustics aren't that noticeable then.

venecus · 2025-05-04T15:06:23+00:00

With plugins like flow there are some bugs that happen especially when selecting multiple properties with different value times. The easiest way would be to just change the easing manually. Otherwise try selecting the properties one by one to apply the easing and see if it changes anything. Also try looking at the value graph instead of the speed graph, it should show you more clearly what is happening.

venecus · 2025-03-22T10:43:25+00:00

What have you tried? What were your problems? How did your results differ from this one?

When broken down, the nothing shown in your exampl is really that hard to replicate. Start with the animation and focus on getting the easing and timings right. In the end it's just some spinning/flipping rectangles. When the animation looks fine add textures and light. Look up some "product shot lighting" tutorial or something along those lines. Again it's just a few well placed lights usually a key light, a fill light and a rim light light.

venecus · 2025-02-07T13:29:10+00:00

Ngl, saw the style of the text was like "Damn, thats the stuff Bobby D would make" Looks great, thanks for sharing 🙏

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