• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  alpha channel for black and white footage?

  Posted by Celeste on December 5, 2005 at 4:29 am

  how do I create an alpha channel for black and white footage? there are 2 characters that I want to use, but want to get rid of the background. thanks.

  Arnie Schlissel replied 20 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andy Mees

  December 5, 2005 at 1:14 pm

  first things first, read up on Chapter 18,
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  Arnie Schlissel

  December 5, 2005 at 8:12 pm

  It’s called rotoscoping. You need to trace mattes for the 2 characters you want to keep in the footage. If you have Motion, you can roto with that. Otherwise, you’d want to use After Effects, Combustion or Silhouette Roto.

  Arnie
  https://www.arniepix.com

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