Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to post but I also wanted to reply to the last…
I completely agree with that last assessment of my situation. I acknowledge wholeheartedly that nothing is gained without the pain of learning and experimenting. I have to admit, that I have been a bit discouraged because there just isn’t enough tutorials to help me through as there is with the more mainstream Adobe apps. I have asked for help with Natron and there just isn’t the support. There just aren’t sufficient tutorials. When I have asked for help, there just hasn’t been much or the delay in obtaining an answer is itself [un-motivating] as that the passage of time creates a growing sense of stagnation and then suddenly, a rushing need.
So in the last few days, I decided to try again with Natron. I have asked for help on this same project before but here it is again.
I tried some different arrangements but this is the only one that appears to work but it doesn’t seem correct to me for some reason. I tried to stabilize the footage in order to make it easy to mask around the subjects ( the kids) in order to blur out the background and give the background a camera blur effect. I needed the mask to be animated with the footage and to follow the subjects to achieve this.
I would like to avoid duplicating the read node -in After Effects, one would duplicate the footage and add the effect to the under layer while having masked out the top layer. How can I do this from this step forward maybe so that its correctly done with nodes? Please, anyone!
