[Christopher Pitbladdo]

Just to put a full-stop under this one, I was almost there with my original assumption that feeding a hicon source into the effect matte would give the right result.

Where I came unstuck was that the effect won’t work at all if you don’t have something – even if it’s blank – feeding the background of the merge node. That, and making sure that the Channel that it takes transparency from is the luma channel.

So if I try the following:

Then the matte doesn’t work.

If I do the same, attaching a blank text node to the background:

The matte now works, and creates transparency on my foreground.

Hope that helps someone who’s in a similar situation!
Thanks again to those who helped!
Chris

[Christopher Pitbladdo]

Aah – okay, now I see from your screenshots what I was doing wrong. I wasn’t giving Resolve anything to actually ‘cut out’ with the matte. I was just expecting Fusion to give me transparency, which would carry along the next pipe, rather than give it a foreground to cut out over the background.

Thanks for taking the time to illustrate things so very clearly Simon – must’ve taken you a while to put together.

Cheers,
Chris

[Christopher Pitbladdo]

Thank you Simon,

Am I right in saying that I have to feed the merge node with the hicon matte as both background AND effect mask?

[Christopher Pitbladdo]

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply Trevor, and for the frame grab!

I’m coming at this from twenty-odd years on Avid, so plenty to learn, but things are starting to click now.

I’d thought it would simply be a case of taking the hicon source, then feeding that into the blue matte pipe, but obviously that didn’t work.

Anyway, thanks once again!

[Christopher Pitbladdo]

Did you ever get this working Karen? I’ve been looking at MetaLAN with interest for an upcoming job.

For what it’s worth, we had great success in reviving a couple of old Meridien systems for a big job last year, where we used an Editshare over the W8000’s built-in network card.

It worked like a charm. Mind you, we were only dealing with 15:1 media.

Best,
Christopher

[Christopher Pitbladdo]

Yes, I knew that 7.5.5 wasn’t qualified, but I read a number of comments from other users who said that things were working without any problems.

It’s not a huge deal, as it’s my ‘second’ system that I use for doing bits and pieces, and digitising… and my home for iTunes. I’m afraid that the lure of iTunes 8 got the better of me!

Chris