• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Little nightmare with very simple thing.

  Posted by Flavio G. garcía on June 4, 2009 at 10:21 pm

  Hello:

  I´m working with this iStock video (a curtain wich opens), and need to make the matte channel transparent to place some video in the background.

  The iSotck video has the video first, and then the matte channel.

  In Avid, what I do is to edit the matte part of the video, add a matte key effect, step inside the effect, and edit there the part of the video with the curtain. So the curtain opens and there´s the video behind the curtain.

  How do you do this in FCP?

  I´ve tried everything, editing the curtain, adding a image mask effect, and adding the mask to the effect, but it´s not working.

  Really, this should be simple.

  How shoulg I do this?

  Thanks.

  Flavio.

  Flavio G. garcía replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Aaron Neitz

  June 5, 2009 at 1:02 am

  Curtain on layer 3
  matte for curtain on layer 2
  video under curtain on layer 1

  right click layer 3. select “travel matte luma”

  it will look at layer 2 to figure out the matting.
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  Flavio G. garcía

  June 5, 2009 at 9:06 am

  That was it!

  Thanks a lot.

  Flavio.

  Flavio G. Garc

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