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Extrude alpha channel?
Is there any way to extrude alpha channels in FCP? Are there plugins to accomplish this?
Thanks for the help,
Mike -
3 Replies
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“Extrude?”
Run that by me again. What would you do with an extruded alpha?
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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FCP doesn’t operate in a defined 3D space, and I’m not aware of a third party plugin to handle something like extrusion (although i may be wrong). you might want to look at After Effects?
cheers
Andy -
Well, my line of thinking on extruding an alpha channel was contingent on a pretty well defined alpha channel – you know standard logo on a transparent background. I know that in Boris, if you have an illustrator .eps, you can extrude the edges to create a simple 3d shape, which can then be tumbled/rotated/etc.
Well unfortunately, customers usually don’t have their logos done in illustrator, or at least they don’t have a copy of the illustrator logo. Often enough I am cleaning up a scanned letterhead, grabbing from the internet, or some other mickey-mouse way of getting the logo into photoshop. But even then I end up with no paths or vector artwork, just pixels.
So here I am, trying to just get some depth based on a clean alpha edge, and I think Andy Mees may be right – AE is the only way to do it. Boris wants an .eps, FCP has no built in solution, and I have seen no plug-in that seems to help.
Thanks for the replys,
Mike
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