How do I feather the edge of a Four-Point Garbage Matte?

[Micah Wolf]

I am not sure I totally follow what you are saying but try duplicate the video layer and then do a blur to the layer that has the 4 point matte.

[Jerry Wise]

if you can use a crop instead, then go to Creative Impatience and download their partially free plug-in “feathered crop” otherwise you are sol unless you take it into after effects. and if you want some nice everyday useful plug-ins buy Boris bcc9. they have some great plug-ins that Premiere sadly lacks.

[Paul Neumann]

Are you doing just a stationary matte?

What I mean is are you wanting to animate points of the mask or just have the mask as a whole move?

[Kevin Monahan]

I don’t use 4 point Garbage Mattes any more with the new Masking and Tracking feature. Tried that?

Thanks,
Kevin

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[Paul Neumann]

And (for now) option click to add points. Gimme dat pen tool.

[Herb Sevush]

[Kevin Monahan] “I don’t use 4 point Garbage Mattes any more with the new Masking and Tracking feature. Tried that?”

Kevin –

I thought the masking feature was for limiting filters to a specific part of the image. Does it also allow you to cut a hole in an image that you can see the video from a lower track through?

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[Robert D’alexis]

[Herb Sevush] “Does it also allow you to cut a hole in an image that you can see the video from a lower track through?”

Absolutely, Herb.
Just use the opacity mask(s).

[James Huenergardt]

1. Put a ‘Four-Point Garbage Matte’ on your clip.
2. Click on the effect in the ‘effect control’ panel to select the effect.
3. Use the pen tool in the effect to MASK out where you don’t want your ‘hole’ to be.
4. Click on the ‘Four-Point Garbage Matte’ effect in the effect control panel to select it.
5. Move the garbage matte handles off the screen.
6. Feather your mask to taste.

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