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How to do this key/matte?
Hello
Been trying to do a simple graphic, have a look at
https://www.truthandlife.info/AR.png
which shows at the bottom a psd of an Accident report sheet I want to have simply fade up in place but need to have the Livetype DECKLE 3 matte wrapped around its edges…ie, I need to have the accident report sheet framed “inside” the Deckle 3 matte while maintaining everythig else you see.
The deckle 3 matte has a texture BG, “Aqua” which needs to remain as is…a week or so ago, I got good advice from LT forum saying to use FCP instead of Livetype for this…so I’ve been trying different “composite” modes, to no avail. I’m doing something wrong, and/or I just don’t know how to do this.
On my layer 1 I have BG image, Layer 2 I’ve got the LT Deckle 3 matte with its Aqua BG matte, Layer 3 is the psd of the paper work, layer 4 is the text…
I’ve no idea how to do this. The more specific the better for me if you could please.
Lastly, Should I be using the psd or make it into a png/tiff – does it matter, final delivery will be DVD, shown mostly on PC’s. And how to have it slanted as you see, but not have those awful jagged lines appear, (probably because of interlacing?)
Thanks much
K
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3 Replies
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I’m not really clear what you are trying to do, but perhaps this may help:
In FCP, if you have a seperate layer with the matte on it (in the optical sense of a black and white image matte), you can put this underneath the layer you want to key and select the composite mode “travel matte luma” on the upper layer. This allows you to output seperate matte layers from software like photoshop when embedded alphas are not supported. Only certain types of stills, like targas, support alphas in FCP, and I suspect this is the root of your problem. psd documents do work in FCP, but not every time – it’s not totally reliable in my experience.
I hope this general advice helps, and is not stating the blindingly obvious to you.
Ben
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Thanks for the reply – very helpful, so I’m going to do what you said, maybe use a png instead of psd file, see what happens.
KB
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OK, I simply took the livetype matte as was, with no fill or matte in it, so it was filled with blue, as was it comes in Livetype…dragged it into my FCP edit, placed it on layer 3 (video on layer 1, BG matte with water on 2, blue matte on 3), and placed a png of my report paper on layer 4, and layer 5 has the livetype text. I added the travel matte ALPHA to report png on layer 4…it all works as I needed…thanks again.
K
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