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Problems with Travel Matte – Luma *PLEASE HELP!*
Hello Everyone!
I apologize if this makes me come off sounding like a total newbie, but I am running into an issue with Travel Matte – Luma in FCP6. First and foremost, I am working with alpha channel stock footage that I ripped from a royalty free dvd. The footage looks like this:
https://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/thebman97/?action=view¤t=video1.jpg
After overwriting the above clip into the timeline, I placed it onto V2 and then added the footage I wanted to replace my white with onto V1. The footage looks like this:
https://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/thebman97/?action=view¤t=video2.jpg
After I control clicked on the footage on V2 and chose “Travel Matte – Luma”, I get the following result:
https://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f388/thebman97/?action=view¤t=Result.jpg
I have tried trashing my prefs, cold booting and even creating a new project and a new sequence inside of the project and I still get the same result. Call me crazy, but shouldn’t I be seeing color in place of the white space in the V2 clip? I am running FCP 6 on a brand spankin new MacBook pro.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME! I have a project due tomorrow afternoon!
Thank you so much!
– Jeremy
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3 Replies
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If there really is an alpha channel there, then use travel matte alpha.
If it really is a true matte with no alpha, put the matte on the bottom (v1) and the fill on top (v2) (you have it the other way around) then change the composite mode of the fill (v2) to travel matte luma.
Jeremy
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From one Jeremy to another…thank you so much…that problem was really eating away at me. Thanks again! 🙂
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[Jeremy Browe] “After overwriting the above clip into the timeline, I placed it onto V2 and then added the footage I wanted to replace my white with onto V1. “
As J. Garchow points, you need to set the matte in V1. The picture where you want to apply the mask must be on top and with the “luma travel matte” mode set.
rafael
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