• Apple Motion

  soft focus effect on edges of clip

  Posted by Kim Rowley on January 25, 2006 at 3:16 pm

  I have brought in a video clip to MOTION, scaled it down to 50% and placed it over an animated background. I want to soften the edges of the frame containing the video clip, throwing just the edges out of focus. I must be having a slow brain moment because I can’t seem to figure it out though I know the command must be staring at me. I haven’t found anything that stands out in this regard in the manual either…

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  Kim Rowley replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jim Kanter

  January 25, 2006 at 3:53 pm

  Create a mask on the clip and add a Channel Blur to the mask and set it on the alpha channel only in the Filter inspector.

  Jim Kanter,
  Digital Film Institute
  http://www.dfilminst.com
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  Kim Rowley

  January 25, 2006 at 4:24 pm

  Thanks Jim, I’ll try it now. I am coming over to Motion from Boris where this particular function was an slider option similar to drop shadow, crop, etc.
  Ciao!
  kim

  Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.03, OS X10.4.3

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