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making a reverse masque
I want to show a sequence of several stills through a still of an open doorway. I tried making a 4 point garbage matte, but when I tried to move the image, to center it in the doorway and resize it, the whole thing moved, including the matte. Also, doing it this way would involve me recreating or copying the matte 5 more times. Is there a way I could make a hole in the open door still and have my other stills ‘show through it’?
TIAE D
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Nest.
Put the stills in a sequence.
Nest That sequence into another with the door mask.Chris
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Thank you Chris,
Chris wrote:
Nest.
Put the stills in a sequence.
Nest That sequence into another with the door mask.By door mask do you mean chroma key? I’ve been trying to figure out what you meant by mask, but my mind is caught in: what is needed is a reverse mask, that is, the reverse of a garbage matte. I might be conflating the terms. However, I had an insight today, and maybe this is what you meant, and that is to fill the door with a color and use chroma key. It seems to work well. The only thing is I wish there were some guide lines I could temporarily lay down to line up the photos. I took several shots of someone walking down the road from behind. I want to line them up so the road looks the same through the open doorway while I adjust the scales and tweak the positions. It would be really nice if there were a ruler or I could pull down a temporary guideline so that I had a reference point. Now I have to keep moving the cursor over each picture to compare them.
Speaking of nesting. This was new to me, but it came in very handy as I have a whole bunch of cuts of a guitar player in front of a blue background making up a track. Instead of applying chroma key to each and every clip, I thought I could nest the sequence and apply it to all. It basically works.
Many, many thanks,
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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