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Digital Juice
I’ve ordered an editor’s toolkit from DJ and I’m wondering how the black & white clips are used. Are these to be keyed in some way…how? These clips seem to be standard in their packages.
Thanks,
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They are to be used as mattes. Possibly for other footage in the package that doesn’t include an alpha channel, or for matting your own footage. You can use them with a Luma Track Matte or the Channel > Set Matte effect.
Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA -
David and Darby are spot on with their advice regarding the matte recommendation.
For another twist on things, you can also try doing things like pre-comp together the matte with a colored overlay. Then take that into your project and use the blend modes to affect the image and see what it does with various opacity settings, etc.
Sometimes, I will use both a colored overlay and a texture and then bring that in using mode settings to get various techniques.
Just a different way to think of using mattes.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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