• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  floating head effect

  Posted by David Finney on October 24, 2008 at 10:12 am

  Hi all im new to this forum and to the editing scene so be gentle, The question i have is what is the best way to produce a floating head effect a bit like the one used in the ABBA video i think it was mamma mia. I using Final cut studio 2.

  Thanks

  David

  Peter Wiggins replied 17 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  October 24, 2008 at 12:53 pm

  You shoot the person on a green screen and key their head out using the Color Key.

  Then you would probably need to use one of the garbage mattes with a lot of feathering to cut the bottom of the head off.

  This will require a lot of keyframing if their mouth is moving.

  Stuff like this is best done in compositing applications like After Effects. No clue how good Motion would be for this.

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  David Finney

  October 24, 2008 at 1:19 pm

  Thanks walter i thought it would be green screening, i guess im going to have to get practicing
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  Peter Wiggins

  October 24, 2008 at 2:08 pm

  Or get them to wear a green polo neck jumper 🙂

  Peter

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