Elliptical Matte

[Floh Peters]

If you want to darken the outside video, the most flexible way would be in Red with the BCC 3Way Color Grade filter.

Select your clip in the Timeline and press CMD-Shift-E to load it into Red. In Red, apply a BCC 3 way Color Grade filter to the layer (from the Filters->Colors and Blur Menu).
In the 3 way CC controls, go to the “Mask” tab and set it to “Egg Shape”. Use the controls in the Composite window to set it to a shape you like.
Then go to the “Outside Correction” tab, and either bring down the “Exposure” or use the Gamma/Gain sliders (under the “wheels) to darken your outside clip. Using the Feather slider in the Composite window or in the Mask controls you can set the softness of your vignette transition.

[Gerry Condez]

Hi Floh,
Thank you so much for your time. That was a great mini tutorial you just gave me and found some use of controls within Red. I appreciate your help a lot. Hoping someone stumbled on this post, its a great find.
Gerry

[Michael Slowe]

That’s it Gerry, a great Tutorial, thank you Floh, I’ve printed it out for experiments. Thank goodness Floh seems to have returned to the fold, I know he’s been busy working outside of his home town, Munich.

Michael Slowe

[Andrew Mehta]

Again, an awesome tutorial Floh, =).

Hope you don’t mind. I went ahead and shared it on the Facebook Group.

I also didn’t know the exact definition of the word “vignette” so gave it a google, and came across this on the Boris FX website, which shows the 3 Way Colour filter being used as Floh describes, =):
https://www.borisfx.com/videos/BCCAE/Cinematic-Look.php