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Hey, I am doing a simple matte painting and I am having trouble masking the image plane so it doesn’t look so sharp edged(circled in red.Pic0001)
My goal is to make the edge look as if it is fading off into the distance. I tried doing masking, but when I do it I get a black edge that doesn’t fit the scene. (pic0002)

Am I approaching this the wrong way? Idk, do you guys know?

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Hey guys!

I’m having problems with importing maya’s camera into AE,

The project is a 3d television with slight cam movement, and I want to be able to change what video is playing on the screen to what the client wants (in AE).

My issue is that I can’t match the Null to the TV screen, when imported into AE.

This is what i’ve done:

Export Iff sequence at 1280*1080, thats fine.

Then i make a .MA file with only the camera and a ‘null_01’ (the null is right in the middle of the TV screen). For the test the null doesn’t move, so i just bake the Camera information.

When bringing into AE the Null and camera both import in, but they aren’t syncing to the TV, they are off. Now in Maya I set my preferences to 30fps and in AE is says the imported Cam (or comp now) is 30 fps. I’ve tried this a few times, and I just cant understand why its not matching perfectly.

Please can anyone help? or has anyone had this problem too?? Thanks!