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Photoshopping Frames in Final Cut Pro
Alright, so here’s the deal. I did this shot for a movie where I had a white paper that I wanted to use to mask out the entire right side of the frame. See below.
The thing is, my camera person wasn’t positioned correctly, and the white sheet didn’t cover the whole area it was supposed, and there’s these gaps. This means (unless there’s some other way) that I’ll have to photoshop each frame like this:
But I don’t want to export 60-odd frames, photoshop them, and import them all back. That would be a major hassle. So is there some sort of program I could use, that would allow me to photoshop WITHIN Final Cut Pro, or just do something that would make this process any LESS tedious? You know, photoshop in “bulk” basically. I can’t reshoot so I’m stuck like this.
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Is the shot locked down? Is the paper moving?
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What’s going on is; The shot is panning from right to left, starting with just the paper. It’s for a transition. So is there any type of program where I can just photoshop a complete sequence, and keep it in tact? With photoshopping with individual frames?
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Use the white as a key signal to cut the whole. Blow up the shot a bit so the white is from top to bottom.
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Yeah, what Craig said.
And here is my reply from over on the Event Video Forum:
Does this “mask” need to MOVE a lot?
Why not just create the mask and put it on a video layer above the other footage?
You would be able to keyframe some “moves” on it.
Much faster than doing a frame-by-frame. -
Thanks for the help. I actually worked something out though. I just put a color key filter on the video, which wasn’t working at first when I posted, but I found “just” the right combination to where it looked decent. The shot is also fast moving so the rough spots aren’t really noticeable.
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