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Track Matte Refresher
I have video I need to place a matte over and show a motion background through on trach 1. I believe the order is:
Track 1 – motion background
Track 2 – Video footage
Track 3 – MattePlace a track matte on track 2 video and change the setting of the filter to recognize track 3 as the keyiing source (matte). Punch out the eyeball on track 3 and render.
I might have something screwed up and I’m sure it’s simple. Thanks for the assistance.
Steve
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5 Replies
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Sounds right. Of course it depends on the matte. You might need to invert the effect, or change the bottom two tracks around.
Steven
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Can you post a screenshot of the matte and the other setup?
Aanarav Sareen
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every time I use a track matte it is difficult. If you want to animate the track matte, sometimes it works better if you do the matte as a nested sequence.
It can get confusing.Mike
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Adobe has changed the procedure a few times.
At this point, the track the matte resides on isn’t an issue as the track the key will find the matte on is user-selectable in the effect control window.
I have to go back and play around with it to refresh my memory, but initially in PPro v1, you had to nest the sequence to get much flexibility in separating the motion of the key source and the key matte.
Also, don’t forget that even though video graphics need to have their color/luma values in between 16-235, a clean matte needs to have 0 black to be completely opaque and 255 white to be completely transparent.
TimK,
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Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
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it gets even more confusing if you want a track matte on a clip with motion. The motion on the track matte track is at ful size, hence nested nested sequences come into play. They could have made it a bit less cumbersome, but I guess Adobe would prefer you buy AE for complex stuff.
Still, I have found all sorts of ways to push Premiere to do motion graphics and other clever tricks.
Mike
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