then blur or soften the matte to avoid hard edges. This is something that's
possible in every other colour correction tool I've used that features
secondary corrections.
Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
> **
>
>
> 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:
> >
> > > **
>
> > >
> > >
> > > 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?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>
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