• Boris FX Sapphire

  Glow with Animated Matte over Video

  Posted by Mitch Jacobson on October 15, 2007 at 3:38 pm

  Hi There! This is my first post to this forum. I searched for question and found parts of the answer that were helpful but, not the complete solution.

  I would like to use the glow effect on text with the animated matte and key that over a video background.

  I can get the effect to work with the text and the animated matte but, I can’t get it to work over video…just black. I’ve tried various combinations ie: not applied to key: background 2 tracks below, etc…I even tried stepping in and replacing the title mat withthe animated matte.

  Here is how the parameters are set:

  V3 Text w/ glow, applied to key; no background; mask on track below
  V2 Animated matte (works as a title key or pict)
  V1 Stock footage (Does not show up)

  Is this possible???

  Mitch Jacobson
  Producer/Editor Avid & FCP
  New York City

  Jesse Adlin replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Todd Prives

  October 15, 2007 at 7:50 pm

  Hi Mitchell,

  Since Avid doesn’t process Alpha properly when working with effect, there is a bit of different thinking involved when it comes to doing this.

  V3 title
  V2 animated matte
  V1 background

  place your Sapphire Plug-in on V3 open the effect editor and click the Apply to Title/Key checkbox. Set the Background: None and set Mask: 1 Track Below. Now Alt+Drop S2_Layer (in the Composite family of effects) on your V3 title, make sure the Background: 2 Tracks Below and Mode:Normal

  A more in depth example of this with projects is available with our training guide:

  https://www.genarts.com/training-guide-avid.html

  Regards,

  Todd
• 

  Mitch Jacobson

  October 15, 2007 at 8:08 pm

  Thanks, Todd!!

  This worked like a charm…much better than my workaround of mixing down the effect, creating a matte than keying that over footage….perfect. Thanks again…

  Mitch Jacobson
  Producer/Editor Avid & FCP
  New York City
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  Jesse Adlin

  March 14, 2010 at 12:02 am

  I’ve always had a problem with sapphire an avid. When I follow these direction the title created in title tool disappears. What can I do?

  Thanks.

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