• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  matting technique for FCP

  Posted by John Graves on August 29, 2006 at 8:06 pm

  Can anyone direct me to a matting tutorial for FCP 3 or FCP in general? My objective is to matte a foreground object over a background, USING an intermediate layer (which I create externally) as a holdout matte. What are the settings so that the middle matte layer can make a hole for the top layer to be matted through?

  thank a lot!

  -John

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  Ben Holmes replied 19 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  August 29, 2006 at 8:23 pm

  I’ve got three tutorials on travel mattes in the Features section, or you can click on my head above and scroll down to find them.

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  Ben Holmes

  August 29, 2006 at 9:52 pm

  The simple answer is that you set the composite mode for the top layer to ‘travel matte – luma’, assuming you’re using a greyscale matte in the middle layer.

  I’m getting cramp typing this tonight. Read Walter’s tutorial, it’s really nice, m’kay?

  Ben

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