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  • Foreground, hi con, background – key

    Posted by Craig Seeman on July 6, 2011 at 1:41 am

    Foreground, hi con, background – key

    1. Place video clip in Primary Storyline

    2. Place black and white hi con as Connected Clip above clip in Primary Storyline

    3. Select the Connected Clip and in Inspector Video Compositing Blend Mode, select either Stencil Luma or Silhouette Luma depending on whether you want black or white to cut the hole.

    4. Place another video clip above the first connected clip and in Inspector Video Compositing Blend Mode, select Behind.

    Maybe there’s another way but this worked.

    Brendan Gibbons replied 13 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Brendan Gibbons

    July 6, 2011 at 6:51 am

    When I first played with the blending modes in X, and failed miserably… I tried the fcp 7 approach.

    v3 foreground (in fcp 7 you would set this to travel matte luma / alpha)
    v2 – matte / hicon etc
    v1 Background

    It seems counter intuitive in X to place you background on the top and then you also have to say…Go to the back would you.

    but hey it works.

    cheers,

    Brendan

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