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Adjusting SpectraMatte scaling and position

Adjusting SpectraMatte scaling and position - Media Composer Tutorial

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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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