Lazy Brush Colour Seperator - Is there an alternative?

[hilary]

Hi All,
So I am working with Lazy Brush 1.1. We are creating flat flood fill stencils that will be painted with a custom brush. Its convenient to be able to create the flat colours on one layer but when we use the 'separate all colours' tab on the menu it obliterates the timing of the animation and puts everything on ones. Is there any way to do something similar with in TV paint so that we can avoid this? Can the mask properties on the layer be set to recognize only one colour? Or is there something I can do with the keying on the effects menu? I seem to remember Fabrice demoing a kind of layer separator that did this - maybe it was just wishful thinking!
Below is the image we get with all our colours on one layer...this is what I want to separate into mulitple layers with the timing in tact.
Thanks in advance!
Hilary

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[Fabrice]

Maybe the "recompute instance" option can do the job ?

[hilary]

Hi Fabrice,
Yes I just tried it -I've tried the recompute with threshold and that seems to create exposures of the first instance according to the length of the layer - I am not sure I am using the recompute tools right - the first one (green one) doesn't seem to be doing anything at all.But the bigger issue is my layers don't necessarily have consistent timing in them. That is 2's, 4's and various holds. I want to be able to keep this - just the way you can now with the transform tool when you couldn't in the earlier versions of TVP. Or maybe there is a kind of colour selection tool similar to photoshop that I could use that would isolate the colour for the mask? If not is there a way to scrub through a shot and jump frames - without image marking them? With a short cut this might speed things up.
Cheers,
Hilary

[Fabrice]

Can the mask properties on the layer be set to recognize only one colour?

no, but it's an interesting idea.

[Fabrice]

You might try this FX (Keyer > ColorKeyer) to keep a specific color :
Don't forget to check the "invert" box

Left is BEFORE using the FX // Right is AFTER using the FX

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Note :
I took the screenshot with "frames" selected in the FX Stack, but you can apply the FX only on instances heads.

[hilary]

Hi Fabrice -
The colour keyer works great for the separation but the timing defaults to ones when I apply the FX. Same issue as lazy brush. I need the timing to stay in tact because I am using the colour seperations as stencils. Anyway to keep your timing once with the FX has been applied?
Cheers,
Hilary

[Fabrice]

try as I suggested, it won't split instances.

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[hilary]

oops sorry my bad works like a charm thanks Fabrice - Problem solved!

[hilary]

Found the easy solution to this issue - turn off auto break instances Doah!