Rounding Masks in AE

Is there a filter or some other way to make the masks rounder in AE for sabers. The edges are extrememly hard right now. I just want a softer feel to them. Any ideas?

 

increase the blur

--JrrDude

 

on the first core layer?

 

yes. it varies around 1 to 3 in the blur settings

 

Well if you have masks, instead of gaussian blurring them or whatever, use the feather.

Solid
-> Mask
-> Feather

 

I use the video tutorials method when I rotoscope so I do the glows by using the mask feather. I think I will try doing a 3 gaussion blur on the core then do the feathering.

 

I find that if you apply a median effect on the glow comp, it does the job nicely, while still retaining the core definition with the lower blur.