You really have to understand the difference between a "matte" keyer and a "chroma" keyer to grock the difference here.
The secondaries in Symphony act like a chroma keyer.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Dylan Reeve <dylan@...> wrote:
>
> Yeah, that's what I was talking about... The soften just softens the
> selection area. Still end up with hard cutoff on matte edges. On slightly
> noisy footage that can create noticable "boiling"
>
> Also impossible to use luma-only for the qualifier which would be helpful.
>
> I usually just ignore the secondaries entirely for that reason. If I really
> need one I will stack up layers with SpectraMatte to get what I need.
>
> Dylan Reeve
> http://dylanreeve.com/
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> > **
> >
> >
> > I guess it depends upon how you define the selection. If you are talking
> > about the selection of a specific color range, and you want to soften that
> > selection, that is what happens now.
> >
> > If you are talking about softening the edge of a matte on an area that you
> > created using a color selection in secondaries, then no, that would be what
> > we gain by adding shapes if Avid invests in that feature set.
> >
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think of the soften in secondaries like I would soften a wipe
> > pattern edge. It's more like a broadening of the secondary color selection
> > allowing more colors near the targeted secondary. At least that's how it
> > seems to work to me. Am I missing something about the "soften" control as
> > it works in Symphony secondaries. I read the OP as wanting to soften the
> > edge of the matte generated by the secondary selection. If I put a
> > secondary on flesh tone of a face and tweak the soften control more fleshy
> > like colors are included in the secondary selection and that happens across
> > the entire raster not just the edge of the face area. I wish spectramatte
> > had better matte manipulation too, the dilate rarely works the way I would
> > like it to.
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Dylan Reeve <dylan@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > <<The secondaries are virtually useless given you can't soften or
> > tweak the matte.>>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Huh? So that soften slider that smoothes out the secondary selection,
> > the one that I have been using all these years is in my imagination?
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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