• Boris FX

  My memory aint what it used to be

  Posted by John on August 15, 2005 at 3:38 am

  Hi folks
  about 3 years ago i had a similar problem to solve and i’m hoping someone can jog
  my faded memory and perhaps tell me the stacking and keying order for creating a
  layered key as seen on my mac home page

  https://homepage.mac.com/velocite/PhotoAlbum52.html

  all help is appreciated

  cheers
  john

  Steve Pankow replied 20 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Steve Pankow

  August 15, 2005 at 4:49 pm

  I think it would be base layer is your footage, the wipe matte sits on top of that, or rather it is what you’d put in the mask track of each of the video sources with one of them inverted. The matte for the sword (I assume the sword itself doesn’t have a key signal?) on top of that (or dump the video tracks into a container and put the sword matte into container’s mask track) the sparks on top of that and the sword itself sitting on top of everything?
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  John

  August 16, 2005 at 1:42 am

  thanks i will give that shot
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  Mark

  August 17, 2005 at 5:14 pm

  Just to add to what Editz said, use the “make alpha key” on the wipe matte footage.

  By the wya Editz, nice name…check out my e-mail address……hehehehe

  Mark
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  Steve Pankow

  August 17, 2005 at 7:34 pm

  Whoops. Forgot about make alpha. Interesting they’d allow that for an email addy, but then again why not? I’d update my profile here but Creative Cow’s no longer allowing screen names shorter than 6 characters and I’m not going to give mine up yet.

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