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Why can’t I get this matte key to work?
I’m trying to composite two clips using an animated matte. The matte itself was captured from tape in the same way as the two video clips, it wasn’t imported as a targa sequence or anything like that.
The intended effect is to have Clip A wiped away by the matte to reveal Clip B – very simple you’d think. I’m familiar with using animated mattes in Avid and Premiere, but I just can’t get it to work in FCP. I can’t find a “track matte” option, so I’m trying to use the “image mask”, which according to the FCP manual will work with either single-frame masks or animated masks.
I’ve put Clip A on V2, Clip B on V1. Then I added the Image Mask filter to Clip A, and dragged the matte clip into the little dropbox in the Image Mask control panel.
I’d hoped that would be all the work necessary, but it
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3 Replies
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Stacvk the clips and use your transfer modes aka blending modes… there is one in there for matte keys
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Wow, that’s what I call speedy service! =;-)
So should I put Clip A on V3, the matte clip on V2 and Clip B on V1, or is it Avid-style, with the matte on V3, Clip A on V2 and Clip B on V1?
And which clip(s) should I apply the “travelling matte” transfer mode to? Just the matte clip?
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Just launch the help menu…. now that you know what its called…. it will go easy
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