How to get BCC filters not to effect background

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Brian,

What host are you using? Is this with BCC or with RED/FX/Graffiti?

Thanks,

Peter.

[Brian Holson]

I’m editing on Avid MC and I am using BCC 5

[Peter Mcauley]

Okay. So are you attempting to filter a title or other element with alpha? If this is the case then you need to enable the “apply to title matte” function in the BCC filter. This will confine the filter to the clip to which it is being applied without affecting the layers below. You can find this switch in the Title Matte group which is located below the General Controls group in the filter.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Brian Holson]

Thanks! I enabled “apply to title matte” and the screen and logo turned gray and the color to the logo disappeared. Any idea on why that happened?

[Peter Mcauley]

That is truly bizarre and a bit of a mystery to me.

All I can suggest is that you remove the clip with the alpha matte from the timeline, cut it back in to the timeline, apply the BCC Jitter filter to the title clip, and enable the apply to title matte to see if this solves the problem.

I just tried this on my MC system and it worked like a charm.

I hope this helps.

Peter.