Greg Brayton
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Hi, Tom,
Thanks for the info about getting the F Keys to work. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work for me.
I’m running Mac OS 10.6.8 and FCP 7.0.3
I’ve done it the way you suggest in earlier versions, but for some reason I can’t make it work now. Any suggestions?
thanks!
-G
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Thank you, Larry! That was the exact right solution.
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Yeah. That wasn’t clear? Haha! Sorry.
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Inverting the matte layer isn’t the problem. I can easily do that with the “invert” effect. Unfortunately, it has no affect on the composite. It’s really strange.
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The truck starts in the middle of the frame and then pulls away to reveal the logo behind it. It’s a super-simple move, but my truck element doesn’t have a built in alpha channel. Instead I have a “matte” layer that syncs to the truck and it’s move. Does that make more sense?
On the AVID I would just apply a key to the matte layer and invert it. This doesn’t work in FCP for some reason.
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Tried that. That was the 1st thing I did. Doesn’t work.
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Ok. So that works for playing footage inside a matte. I now realize I actually have a different problem. I want my truck to drive across a still frame of a logo. My 3D guy provided me the truck element and a separate matte layer (hold out) that syncs up with the movement of the truck.
In avid, I just put the two layers on the timeline and use an inverted key on the matte layer and it keys out the truck and I can see the lower layers around the truck. But that isn’t working in FCP.
Does that make sense? I’m not sure how else to describe this.
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Awesome! So simple! Haha! Thanks!