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Garbage Matte Feather
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I switched over to Premiere after Final Cut Pro made all those changes a few years back, but I am getting so sick and tired of the lack of Adobe Premiere plug-ins and even worse, their total lack of feathering for basic functions like garbage mattes and transitional effects that I am seriously considering switching back over.
Get on the ball Adobe. For a company this large you have no excuse for leaving out these very basic functions. Without them, our edits look amateurish. This is totally unacceptable.
For the record, I have submitted this request to Adobe multiple times. I suggest others do the same!
Dragzz
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I believe the feather Garbage Matte was added to the Creative Cloud Version.
Stephen Smith
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Stephen,
Sorry, but I’m running CC and it doesn’t have it in the garbage matte functions. There is a separate “Edge Feather” filter in the video effects folder, but it does not work when you try to apply it to your garbage matte video clip.
Adobe still needs to address this one.
Dragzz
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Oh my words, that is so lame that they haven’t addressed that yet. I was thinking about the Crop that they added the feather to.
Stephen Smith
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Yeah, I love Adobe, but the fact that they refuse to add this function is inexcusable. C’mon Adobe, get with it!!!
Dragzz
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It kind of goes with Adobe’s Creative Cloud mentality, though, if you think about it.
Most basic matting can be accomplished through Crop and feathered that way. Anything more advanced can be linked to After Effects. The tools are all there, you just have to use the right ones for the right job.
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To spend extra time to round trip to After Effects to do something as simple as adding a feather to a garbage matte is silly when Adobe could just add the feature to PPro. Based on what you are saying why did Adobe even bother adding a feather to crop when you could just round trip it to After Effects and feather their? A feather garbage matte has been available in FCP for over a decade. Having PPro do things that AE can has been around for a long time. A good example is the Text tool. My hope is that they add this functionality in the next version. Even with that said I love PPro much more then FCP.
Stephen Smith
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True, Final Cut had feathering capabilities of its own, but Final Cut wasn’t able to dynamically link footage between itself and After Effects. Final Cut had Motion, which was disappointing in its own right, so they kind of had to include extra features so that people wouldn’t have to round trip it out to After Effects. Now, with Dynamic Link, round-tripping is essentially a thing of the past, and editing footage in After Effects has become more like using a filter than before.
It doesn’t make things any less irritating if you don’t have AE, but it seems like they’re trying to draw lines in the sand as to what can be categorized under “video editing” and what falls under “compositing and effects”.
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[Paul]
True, Final Cut had feathering capabilities of its own, but Final Cut wasn’t able to dynamically link footage between itself and After Effects. Final Cut had Motion, which was disappointing in its own right, so they kind of had to include extra features so that people wouldn’t have to round trip it out to After Effects.Adobe Premiere 1.0 was released in 1991. Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 was released in 2006 and introduced Dynamic Link with After Effects projects. That is over a decade until PPro was able to dynamic link to After Effects and you are saying FCP had to offer the feature because they couldn’t dynamic link to After Effects. This is something that should have been in Premiere a long time ago which is why this thread is so long.
Also, Motion is a fantastic program that has allowed many people to create really cool stuff and can easily handle a garbage matte that can feather. Also Motion introduced the ability to round trip with FCP in 2005. Apple called it Round Tripping but it functioned just like Dynamic Linking does.
[Paul]
It doesn’t make things any less irritating if you don’t have AE, but it seems like they’re trying to draw lines in the sand as to what can be categorized under “video editing” and what falls under “compositing and effects”.I don’t work for or represent Adobe so I can’t speak for them, but I don’t think they “draw lines in the sand.” I think they want to offer as many ways possible to create cool stuff.
Stephen Smith
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This is the kind of annoying revelation that makes all the “iMovie” cracks incredibly insulting. This should be a simple process, and there should be no need to go outside the editing program.
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