adding effects to a specific area

[Liam Stephens]

Duplicate the clip u want to effect and put the copy on top of it.

With the duplicated clip:

Create a mask around the area u want to effect using crop or one of the matte filters

then apply the blur/filter to the masked clip

– Its a bit prehistoric but will do the trick depending on the material. I definitely try keep this sort of work out of FCP, but to each his/her own..

🙂

L

Mac 10.5.4
FCP 6.04
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16gb RAM
7 TB Maxx RAID
AJA Kona3

[Michael Gissing]

Or use Andy Mees free region blur plugin

https://web.mac.com/andymees/Free_and_Easy/main/main.html

Simple, elegant – thanks Andy!

[Paul Bosch]

thanks, what do you use to do this?

[Liam Stephens]

After Effects… I guess u could do it in Motion & Color too

Mac 10.5.4
FCP 6.04
2 x 2.8ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon
16gb RAM
7 TB Maxx RAID
AJA Kona3

[Paul Bosch]

Thanks for the tip,! While were on the topic, Know of any other free pluggin sites?

[Paul Bosch]

Ive got the plugin , just can figure out how to move the region around, its stuck in the center.

[Michael Gissing]

Paul, like most plugins, you select the center of the region by clicking the + and then clicking on the spot in the viewer. This target point can be keyframed if it needs to move.

[Paul Bosch]

Forgive my ignorance, but what is clicking the +?
Nothing seems to work.
Thanks
Paul

[Paul Bosch]

Thanks , it works great, is there any way that you can move the blur in realtime with the subject?