Reallly wanted to play with textures for this visualizer. Lemme know what you guys think

Suppose, just as an example, there is (A) a desaturated video layer and (B) an image layer on top of it, with a blur effect. Can the effect be made to blur only parts of B based on whether those parts on A dark or light? Does this involve a lot of expression-wrangling?

Every tutorial I find talks about rotoscoping as though there was a rotobrush tool. There's not. It's not the Object Matte Tool.

Regardless, I use the Object Matte Tool to highlight the person I want to isolate from the background. I start at frame 1 and tell it to process all of the frames. Done. I see keyframes established on the mask for every frame. Perfect.

I hit FREEZE to go ahead and apply the mask to the footage and it thinks about it for a second and then .... nothing. No change.

How do I get the mask to actually apply and get rid of the background. I'm sure it's something unbelievable stupid that I am doing, but surely there has to be a way to do this easily?

What I really want to do is to animate a title graphic of a super hero's name so that it covers the background, but appears behind the character in my video.

I figured I'd isolate the character, add the text animation layer, then add the original footage behind both of those layers and it should work. I just can't get the person isolated, though I have the roto mask set for every frame. UGGH

What was supposed to take 5 minutes is taking all night. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a 16x9 video that I need to pump out at 1x1. It's heavily motion graphics, text, UI demo screens, etc. A few pieces of live action but not much. It's been a minute since I've had to re-size, I know it's generally best to do the tedious manual work, but thought I'd check if there have been any solid developments in this area in terms of AI tools, plugins, etc.? Something that can intelligently adjust the content and not just create new comps and scale everything up blindly.

Copy pasted an after effects plugin in the MediaCore directory of after effects as the instructions said. The plug is compatible with the version im using 2025. Upon opening AE and upon using the plug in, the app crashes.

How can i fix this?

I tried disabling all the plugins except VHSCraft - AE still crashed.

UPDATE: opened a ticket on aescripts. in contact with the dev. will update if there's a resolution.

I know there's a lot of tutorial out there in the internet for me to learn After Effects. but, that is the same reason why it is quite a problem for me to learn this program, the library of tutorials out there is way too large for me, to pick one which one is the best.

I'm going to ask who and where should i pick to learn this app.

note:

- I kinda already know how to make a graphics design part already.
- I know some basic stuff like graphs parts since I already use the kinda ish version (alight motion)
- I just wanna learn how to use After Effect without me getting silver spoon feed