Multiply doesn't work

[johncaraj]

Hi everyone, I might be missing something obvious here, but as you see, multiply top doesn’t get the second input as a mask for the first (colored noise). I want to get just these pixels (of the 2nd input), with the values of the first one, and then the reorder is there to get the transparent alpha. I’ve tried also every possible combination with the comp top, still nothing.

(I am following a tutorial from paketa12 and the result should be like the picture above).

Thanks in advance.

** I think the problem is in the level top the pixels are not only black and white (as they appear), that’s why in the final reorder top, I get way more pixels that I intended. I figured that that a limit top after the level, clamping the values just to black and white, solves partially the problem, but it’s not exactly what I want for the final result. Any thoughts, on why this is happening ?

[Gallo]

hi,

there are too many parameters that can cause this issue, you’d better share the project file, or at least a part of it.

cheers

[timgerritsen]

I think your TOPs have negative values (you can see their values better in ‘normalized split’ view, pressing ‘n’ when the viewer is on).
Could possible be that paketa set the ‘clamp input’ parameter of the levelTOP to ‘clamp [0-1]’. This makes sure your values stay positive.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
tim