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Need a little help please.
I’m trying to cut out a piece of a video and place it over another piece of video. I’m more familiar with Avid than FCP.
Avid refers to this effect as an “animatte”. This is a matte which allows you to cut out video using your mouse and key frames. You essentially draw with the mouse around the part you want to cut into the layer below and then use the effects editor to smooth out the rough edges. It looks like a croma key but its not.
Is this a part of FCP or do I need to go to motion 3. I see all sorts of mattes and keys but none seem to do what I need. If it is part of FCP whats it called?
Thanks
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FCP doesn’t have a function for drawing mattes as you want. You have an eight-point garbage matte, or third-party plugins with like 32 points. You’d probably better off doing this in Motion.
All the best,
Tom
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It’s called garbage matte and you can do it in FCP, but it’s clunky and you can only do 8 points. Hard to do much with 8 points. Motion would be your best bet.
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You may also want to look into using the Silhouette Roto plugin:
https://www.silhouettefx.com/roto/download.htmArnie
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Thank you all for your help. I’ll try the plug in 1st then motion if it doesn’t work. Thanks again.
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There is also a free “50 Point Bezier Matte”. Good to make a static mask.
You can export just the mask from Motion (really fast) and apply it in FC.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
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I just checked out the 50 Point Bezier Matte. It’s obviously been around a while. Any user reports here?
Anyone know if it works with FCP6/Leopard?
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