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Adjusting SpectraMatte scaling and position - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2
Adjusting SpectraMatte scaling and position
- [Instructor] One of the great things about working with chroma keyed footage is that there's no reference within the frame to indicate where the individual should be in relation to the camera. Of course, there's an eye line, and there are some limits to what you can get away with before it starts to look unnatural. But you can scale up and down and reposition your subject in the frame quite easily. Inside the spectrum at effect controls, we have scaling and position controls available to us. And these are just as you would expect, width and height control, and a horizontal and vertical position. I might decide, for example, that I want my subject to be over to the left or over to the right. I might want them to be a little smaller in the frame. And of course, this introduces an issue, which is that although for our minds, we're seeing a person standing in front of the camera that happens to be cropped by the edge of…
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Set up a sequence for Chroma Key5m 2s
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Applying the SpectraMatte effect3m 55s
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Viewing the Matte channel4m 27s
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Cropping the SpectraMatte effect1m 52s
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Viewing the SpectraGraph3m 40s
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Adjusting the SpectraMatte5m 11s
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Dealing with spill4m 54s
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Refining the edges of the matte2m 28s
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Adjusting SpectraMatte scaling and position1m 36s
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