• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Custom Matte Shape

  Posted by Caton Clark on June 4, 2009 at 11:40 pm

  I’m using an oval matte around video of a couple as a way of highlighting their undying love for one another.

  Is it possible to create a heart shaped matte or would that have to be done in photoshop?

  Thanks.

  Liz Cooke replied 15 years ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  June 4, 2009 at 11:52 pm

  Easiest to do it in Photoshop.

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Michael Gissing

  June 5, 2009 at 12:04 am

  I’ll bet you can find one on the web in seconds
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  David Bogie

  June 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm

  Easy to create in Motion, too.
  You can build a heart out of three intersecting matte shapes, two ovals (slightly rotated) and a square (rotated 45 degrees).

  Heck, you can draw a heart on paper and shoot it with a still camera.

  bogiesan
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  Liz Cooke

  May 13, 2011 at 7:01 pm

  But how do should you prepare the mask? Should the shape be a solid black/white image? I’ve used masks in photoshop, illustrator and indesign, but not in fcp.

  I am trying to use a custom rectangle that has two rounded corners and two square corners. I have the shape made in illustrator, I dropped the source file into the CoverFlux plugin for the custom shape mask and nothing happened.

  -Liz

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