Garbage Matte Feather

[Ann Bens]

I have asked for feather many cycles.
Also the circle effect has feather. You can make that into an elips and that’s it.

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[Stephen Smith]

Ann, I also really hope they add a feather to the garbage matte, it just seems like something that wouldn’t be that hard. The ellipse sounds like a good idea. I’ll give that a go.

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[Ann Bens]

I made this short tutorial with the circle effect.
https://vimeo.com/37482276

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[Tom Daigon]

Hi Stephen. It drives me bonkers when I have to use a Boris Red 5 filter OR dynamic link into AE just to feather a matte. I feel your pain 😀

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[Jon Barrie]

G’day Guys/Gals,

This may have some positive influence on the current workflow:
https://library.creativecow.net/barrie_jon/Premiere-Pro-Title-Feathering/1

Cheers JB

Jon Barrie
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[Tom Daigon]

Nice one Jon! I forgot about the Titlers ability to generate feathered shapes. I still tend to DL into AE cause its really fast and flexible there.

Tom Daigon
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[Chris Conlee]

Ann,

How do you make the circle effect into an elipse? That’s EXACTLY what I’m looking for right now, but can’t seem to change the dimensions of the circle…?

Chris Conlee

[George Milnes ii]

I know I’m late to the show…but, really?!? It’s this hard to do a feathered garbage matte?? I think I’ll NOT upgrade OSX and keep using FCP 7…WOW, I must just be spoiled with so many years of ease of use. I feel bad for others that must edit with PP. Sigh. I purchased the Master Suite version of CS and thought I’d try my hand at a project with PPCS5—it’s been a looooooong time since being so irritated with such an unintuitive UI. Ugh! I’m not impressed to say the least…

I can only hope someone at Apple gets their heads screwed back on to get FCP-X up to the ‘old standards’ of use…

OK, rant over…I found thread trying to find where the ‘secrete button’ was for feathering the matte…ugh…aaarrrggghhh!!

Thanks for listening 😛

[Stephen Smith]

[George]
I know I’m late to the show…but, really?!? It’s this hard to do a feathered garbage matte??

I agree. Something so simple really needs to be in 6.5.

[George]
I think I’ll NOT upgrade OSX and keep using FCP 7…WOW, I must just be spoiled with so many years of ease of use. I feel bad for others that must edit with PP. Sigh. I purchased the Master Suite version of CS and thought I’d try my hand at a project with PPCS5

CS6 has an improved UI. For me, below is a small list of why you should consider using PPro:

-You don’t need to render keyed footage and PPro’s keyer is WAY better then FCP 7’s.

-You can work with raw files (This should be the main reason to you PPro, Avid or FCPX)

– You can set it to keep track of which clips have been placed in your timeline and how many times you used each clip in the timeline. (This is WAY better then how FCP does it by a long shot)

– You can play timeline and edit at same time

-You can alter a clip and then bring it back and PPro remembers the render files

Trust me, I’m a big FCP guy. I’ve written numerous tutorials and training DVDs on Final Cut Studio products. PPro has problems but it has a lot to offer. I would use it on every project if they would make it so I can send my projects to DaVinci.

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[Andrew Anthony]

This worked great for me. I had to double the effect to get the right amount of feather, which definitely raised render time but the extra render way outweighed going thru all the clips and redoing my mattes in AE. Thank you!!!!!