Heather Gulledge
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I think perhaps that the motion filter is not working right. I am able to set up the area and am able to key exactly 3 times before I am unable to move the center crosshair or key anything else. What I am able to key looks perfect and I know that if I was able to finish the whole little segment I would not see a bug at all. I don’t know what the problem is and know too little to troubleshoot at this point.
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Thank all of you so much for your help. You are all so kind to take pity on a Final Cut beginner. Makes perfect sense now and playing with the clips more helps me understand too. Until my next crisis….
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I have read several post on here today. Should have done that first instead of posting a new thread. Sorry about that. I also watched a couple non creative cow tutorials on filter order. My question now (since I have seen and read two different opinions in the last hour) is how does final cut read the filters? Is it going to be reading up…so it would read the levels filter first?
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That makes it clearer. But to just get this straight in my head, let me use this one clip I am working on as a further example/question.
I have 6 filters on it. They should order CC, Smooth Tone, Sharpen, Broadcast safe, Levels and finally the chroma? Or CC, BS, Levels,smooth tone, sharpen then chroma?
Do I usually keep the CC, BS and levels together unless there is something like brightness that would affect the color? And do chroma keys list at the bottom or top of a filter list?
So appreciate the helpful advice.
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Mark’s idea worked for this situation but I have other footage in this little project that your idea works for. Unfortunately, the man who filmed this is in Hawaii and we are in Tennessee so kind of having to work with what we get. Point is I had SEVERAL clips with water spots. Positioning them next to, say, surfing footage does take away from the distraction factor. And am looking for a water plugin now (if such a thing exist.)
Thank you for your contribution and time. It will definitely work for me too. -
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Oh please, I am just thrilled with what you gave me to work with. I am just sorry it took as much of your time as it did. It was very easy to follow. I have worked the steps several times and then deleted the second ‘work’ layer just so I can get comfortable with it. We want to master the first of next week so you were right to keep it simple. I will play with the masking tools further when I am not in the “AUGH” stage of a project.Thank you for your time and effort. I truly appreciate it.
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Ok…here he is. There is the very obvious water spot on the left in front of his arm and a smaller one around his hand/fruit on right.
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Sounds like a great idea…so again, as if you were speaking to an elementary student. Duplicate I understand. Offset? Soft edge mask under Mattes? So am I just changing the duplicate and laying it on top of the original so that the water spot is blurred or covered?
So sorry to need further instructions here
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Grr…do not think the boris effect will work at all. Effect called wire remover in Keys Matte. Applied it and played with it with no success. What should I try now?
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Well…aced may a bit of an stretch BUT I was able to follow your instructions step by step and achieve a pretty decent job. I was surprised at how much control I had with just the FC keying. I wound up not using the boris filters or keying at all. I did however have to do each clip depending on the background. I found a basic chroma key and color correction that worked and dragged it to each clip then was able to play with them and make it look really nice. Also,I never even knew where the vectorscope was so using those tools made it easy for me to see if I was going in the wrong direction. So, color nice, keying good, everything broadcast safe…leaves me feeling good. Thank you again for your instructions. I couldn’t have done it without you.