FCP – Moving Mattes?
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January 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM #46818
Anonymous
InactiveHey there. I’m playing around with mattes and wanted to know if I can add motion to a matte. I have a close up of a character’s eyes moving from left to right. I want to put a matte (or mask?) over one eye as it moves across the screen. Can this be done? How? (this is in FCP)
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January 23, 2009 at 7:29 PM #192740
Anonymous
Inactive*EDIT*
Behind the matte, I’m adding a moving clips to show what the character is looking at.
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January 24, 2009 at 1:33 AM #192741
Rob
ParticipantIt’s best to do make the matte/mask in Motion and do the motion tracking effect
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January 24, 2009 at 2:23 AM #192742
Anonymous
Inactiveaww…but I don’t know how to use motion. Isn’t there someway to pull it off just in FCP?
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January 24, 2009 at 3:40 AM #192743
Coreece
ParticipantUnfortunately, FCP does not have its own motion tracking capabilities…You will have to get third party plugins like Lyric Plugins or Boris Fx to perform this function within FCP.
http://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/tracking.htm
If you have Motion or After Effects you might as well use those since the concept of motion tracking is similar no matter what program you use.
If youinsist on usingFCP without the assistance of a motion tracker, another option would be to keyframe the position of your matte 30 times per second…not recommended.
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January 24, 2009 at 6:01 PM #192744
Rob
ParticipantIf you don’t know how to use Motion, now is a good time to learn. There are some tutorials atwww.apple.com/finalcutstudio/tutorials that will help you get started and learn the interface. After that, reading the manual, which I know isn’t the most exciting thing, well help you a lot as well. Motion isn’t hard. It’s just as intuitive as FCP
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