• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting footage with colour solid masks.

  Posted by Michael Coates on January 31, 2012 at 3:33 pm

  Hello once again, different question here, I have a clip 15 seconds in length that contained images in the background I didn’t want in. I was able to add a solid colour to these parts of the image and ‘mask’ them – essentially deleting them out.

  It looks fine but I’m curious now, can I export with the masks in place without losing quality to the overall image. If I just export as current settings will it be essentially the same file but with the ‘masking’ rendered on top?

  Thanks for reading
  Michael

  Michael Coates replied 14 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  January 31, 2012 at 5:08 pm

  [Michael Coates] “It looks fine but I’m curious now, can I export with the masks in place without losing quality to the overall image. If I just export as current settings will it be essentially the same file but with the ‘masking’ rendered on top?”
  The whole picture will be processed, but if you are using a good codec, the un-masked areas won’t degrades.
  If you export Uncompressed, you will keep the original pixel.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Michael Coates

  February 1, 2012 at 12:14 am

  Thank you very much, exported uncompressed with the colour masks and it looks the same to me without the annoying and intrusive objects which I covered up.

  Superb 🙂

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