Shape Mask not completely blocking area

[Mark Suszko]

Sounds like a setting mistake somewhere, but I couldn’t say where. Something I’ve had to do to “airbrush” a screen flaw is, duplicate the layer, stack it above, crop it down to an area of clean white space above or below the offending line, feather the crop, move it down or up or whatever to cover the target.

A more aggressive approach might be to screen-capture the frame, take it into Photoshop or GIMP, sample the clean area and then apply it universally to create a blank full page, bring that back into FCPX and make a composite of all your needed masking against that. Or re-compose the text in Photoshop and just key the hand back in over it.

[Doug Metz]

If the shape masks on the color board are there just to remove the words, try this:

1. Delete the masks from the color board – you can also delete the color correction if it isn’t necessary to get a good key

2. For each word you want to remove, apply a Shape Mask from the Effects browser to the clip. Place it under the Luma Key in the Effects stack, and invert it. Resize to fit. In this case, you’ll probably want the Feathering control set to 0.

Doug Metz

Dalton+Anode

[Geoff Gross]

Thanks Mark – I figured out a way around it.

Just need to use the “draw mask” effect and invert the mask to completely block out the text in question. adding a shape maks to the color correction effect didn’t do the trick for whatever reason.

But adding the draw masks led me down a path of chopping up the text and moving it around, which I think will result in a much cooler video in the end anyway.

Thanks!