• Adobe After Effects

  fixing mattes from videotape

  Posted by Dan O’brien on August 22, 2006 at 9:36 pm

  I have some old fills/mattes from digibeta that I’m combining into QTs with embedded alpha using AE 6.5. The problem… when I import the QTs back into Avid, the elements are a little bit transparent. I then looked at the matte color, and noticed it was not quite 100% white (it was about 234 rgb). I tried the “replace color” effect to increase the white levels and it works, however the soft edging of the mattes are now lost a little. So my question is… how can I boost the overall white levels of the mattes so they key correctly?

  Dan

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  Dan O’brien replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Coverbee

  August 22, 2006 at 9:50 pm

  Hi
  Try this one

  Effect>Adjust> Levels
  bring the percenyage for “input white” back.

  Does it work or am I just being to simple..
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  Dan O’brien

  August 22, 2006 at 10:04 pm

  You’re not being too simple… I’m being too stupid!

  It worked fine… just had to find the sweet spot… Thanks for your help.

  Dan

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