[Dustin Parsons]

That would be the ideal situation. Unfortunately my work has a very quick turnaround and I’m usually making changes up until the last minute (not my choice) so round-tripping for anything gets very time consuming.

Agreed though, Motion/After Effects is definitely the way to go.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Results are the same – the invisible keyed areas turn opaque black. Thanks for the suggestion though. Hadn’t though of trying that.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Good suggestion but I need more control. The green is very subtle and the spill suppressor starts affecting other parts of the image before the green is completely gone.

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[Dustin Parsons]

I’m using the Color Key filter that comes with FCP. I have options to change the Tolerance, Edge Thin, and Edge Feather but no spill suppression.

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[Dustin Parsons]

That’s actually how I had ended up doing it, but using Fit All so I can have a boarder around the video display.

Thanks

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[Dustin Parsons]

Ahhh, I think I had tried the compressor filter but since it had lowered the volume of the entire clip, and I didn’t try boosting the audio after that, I thought it wasn’t what I was looking for.

Thanks for the clear explanation. I’ll let you know how it works.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Getting proper exposure when you shoot is pretty much the only way around this. Increasing the levels too much in post will reveal digital artifacts.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Is your Scratch Disk set to the folder your media is in?

I think if you set your Scratch Disk (found under Final Cut Pro > System Settings…) to the folder your media is in, then FCP will find all the files upon opening the project.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Andy’s Region Blur might work as well – it’s free and I’ve found it very useful. The download button is the FCP effect window.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Well, as I predicted, I’ve run into the issue again. This time I’ve already placed markers all over multiclip that I need to add another angle to, so just deleting the multiclip and starting over using the Aux Timecode trick isn’t that appealing of an option.

Does anyone else have a method that will let me specify where in time the 3rd angle I’m adding to the multiclip will be placed?

Thanks!

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