[FCP-L] Re: Best way to Matte White Screen

What about a difference matte? If you have a shot of the background
without the foreground subject. Not saying it will be beautiful but
might work.

>
>
> On Oct 24, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Robin S. Kurz wrote:
>
>> No matter how you put it, you‚re painting the infamous lipstick on
>> the
>> pig. White does not key. Period. It screens, it overlays, it does
NOT
>> „key‰, it is a practical impossibility by definition. If it were a
>> mere question of „avoiding a color‰, then the colors blue and most
of
>> all GREEN would not be standard as key colors. Look at a color wheel
>> or even video scope and you might catch why...
>>
>> You will NEVER pull a usable matte based on WHITE unless of course
>> your foreground plate is *completely* black. Not without a massive
>> amount of garbage mattes that is, in which case you might as well
>> roto.
>>
>> - RK

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