From the course: SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

Overview of masking and roto - SynthEyes Tutorial

From the course: SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

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Overview of masking and roto

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- Sometimes we need to use roto shapes in camera tracking, whether it's to use it as a garbage matte or for an object track. Let's go over to the Roto Masking tab, and over in the Roto Masking tab we have all the tools we need for adding splines and roto shapes. If we go down here, we have some options for keyboard shortcuts while we're making the splines. Then we have an area here where it has our list of different splines or roto shapes. Underneath that is a drop-down menu where we can change what the roto shape is for, if it's Garage, Object, Camera. Then we have some buttons here that we can use for Control Points and keying. These buttons here are for making shapes, custom square and circle. These buttons here, these arrows, can change the order of the stacking and the stacking does make a difference and sometimes, the very top one will be in the front in the foreground, and the bottom one will be in the far back. Then we have some options here for Alpha channels, which we'll get into, later. And the very last piece down here is for adding tracking information to the splines themselves. So that's a quick overview of all the tools for Roto Masking.

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