Set Matte | Effects of After Effects

In this quick tutorial, I explain how to use the Set Matte effect in Adobe After Effects.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:05 Set Matte
08:56 Thanks for watching!

[vooshmoozik]

this entire mini series feels like you've been clueless to after effects in the past, tried to look at tutorials but was always disappointed at their low quality and decided to make better ones yourself, and personally i think you nailed every single one, and i repeat my question i asked before, where were you a few years ago man, youtube just got better because of this

[hong]

This tutorial is underrated and deserves more exposure. You basically debunk the Set Matte functions. Keep up with the good job!! and I look forward to your tutorials in the many other functions in AE! Cheers!

[chrissanchez]

Holy God... Thank you for explaining everything! I hate when tutorials only explain tiny pieces of an effect. Keep on keeping on! Thanks again.

[TheFPSChannel]

From the whole (wonderful) series, this is my favourite because of it’s power to remove the need for multiple copies of the same matte to affect multiple layers. Definite face-palm when learning about this effect. 👏

[davidp]

Thanks for this one! The Set Matte effect has baffled me, but this clarifies a LOT.

[hugorezende]

tons of help Jake! Thanls, now my "mask" use can be smarter intead of using many masks and many layer styles.
The "contiuosly rasterize" topic that you said was new to me in the use of mattes.

[JohnSundayBigChin]

Wow dude...you are so professional and you know all the details, keep it up!

[AnaHiga]

OMG the best tutorial eveeer! I was so confuse in how to use set matte. Thank you so much for this video haha

[sebastianmessinger]

You just solved a problem that caused me hours of confusion. Thanks!

[TheRampax]

Very well explained, cheers Jake. I can see that this is a super useful effect, I think I have been doing things the hard way all these years!

[chozn]

ALL I NEEDED TO DO WAS CHECK THE CONTINUOUSLY RASTERIZE!! OH MY GOODNESS! I'VE BEEN ON THIS FOR HOURS! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[GilangD]

this is really helpful, thanks for the work!

[OFGAnimationStudio]

Very important effect that I am using instead of track matte. Thank you for detail insights about it. ıt is a very strange effect especially for vectors layers too. Thank you, Jack :)

[_hunu]

This was really helpful, thanks a lot.

[alaabenrhouma]

I can't thank you enough for this content. You rock <3

[sreejithkakkat]

Hi Jake, Cool video first of all. I have a doubt. What if the layer is 3D. For clarity what if your logo in the video is 3D

[ahmetbaykara.mp]

Great tutorials 🔥 I have a question: I have a video with text inside it. I want to highlight the text in a specific time (glow, brighten, color gradient ..etc.) I tracked the text inside the video with Mocha CC and apply it in a solid layer as a mask and tried to apply effects to that solid layer. But I have a problem with the effects especially with gradient ramp cc. The gradient effetct not follow the position of the mask. I tried to parrent the solid layer to the Mocha plannar data with a null object but then the AE layer panel look like a mess. What is the cleanest and right way to apply a effect that follow the movement?

[pluepidoo]

Hello what if i want to add the light sweep effect (or adjustment layer) onto multilayer without the BG, how could I use the set matte instead of pre-compose ? Even though I could use the track matte but it just active in one layer?

[rainbow]

Okay but surely instead of the whole precomp solution, you can just right click on the Illustrator file and go Create>Vector to Shape Layer. Or would this still cause issues?

[jacobdean]

I feel like everything achieved with Set Matte you can achieve with Track Matte, perhaps a bit cleaner, limiting redundancies in your timeline and such. Any specific use cases you've stumbled upon where Set Matte saved your biscuits or made things a lot easier as opposed to Track Matte?