garbage matte to remove text?

[David Roth weiss]

Annie,

Don’t know exactly how to do this in FCP, but in compositing apps, like Combustion etc. which I’m much more versed in, here’s what you’d do.

Duplicate your video layer on another track. Create a soft edge mask on the top layer around the stuff you don’t like, and invert so that everything else is visible except the stuff you don’t want. Then, move the BG layer around until the parts of that layer that you like show through. Bing, you’re done. I haven’t done much with masks in FCP, so I’m not sure exactly how the filters work, but I’m sure there must be a rectangular mask that’s pretty simple to work with.

Let me know you got it…

DRW

[Ann Lukacs]

Thanks. I’ll give it a try and let you know.

[David Smith]

CHV makes a garbage matte plugin with bezier handles:
https://www.chv-plugins.com/bezierpro.html

They also have a “clone and repair plugin” tool that could be used to copy some of the background and lay it over the text.
https://www.chv-plugins.com/collclonepaint.html

Both of these are $49, and the clone tool is part of a larger collection (the whole collection is $49). They have some neat stuff.

Regards,
David

[Chris Poisson]

Annie,

You can do the exact same thing David described in FCP. Easiest way I know is open the top layer in the viewer and use the crop tools to isolate the patch, feather the edges and move it over the letters.

Have a wonderful day.

[Ann Lukacs]

Yeah!!!!! That works! Thanks!