{"id":34,"date":"2006-07-18T18:48:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T02:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=34"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:34:21","slug":"simple-masks-in-final-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2006\/simple-masks-in-final-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Masks in Final Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;d like to put a mask around your video in Final Cut, you can do it easily with a quick trip to Photoshop.  ( By the way, this trick will work in almost any video editing program.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 1.<\/b> Create a new image in Photoshop.  For NTSC video (the standard in North America and part of Asia), make it <b>720 x 540<\/b>.  For PAL video (the standard in the rest of the world), make it <b>768 x 576<\/b>.  As you can see below, Photoshop helpfully offers these sizes as menu options.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> If these dimensions seem a little different from what you&#8217;re used to, remember that many modern video formats (DV and DVD, for example) are <b>anamorphic<\/b>.  That means they require a &#8220;squished,&#8221; or distorted, recorded image, which they restore to normal size when they play back.  We&#8217;re using the proper unsquished dimensions to create our masks; Final Cut will take care of the resizing automatically.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/finalcutmask01.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 2.<\/b> Make your mask.  Use black for any areas you want completely blocked, and white for any areas you want completely visible.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/finalcutmask02.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 3.<\/b> Drop the mask image onto your Final Cut timeline, placing it on a new track above your original video.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/finalcutmask03.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 4.<\/b> Right-click (or control-click, on a one-button mouse) on the mask clip to bring up the <b>Composite Mode<\/b> menu.  Choose <b>Multiply<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/finalcutmask04.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 5.<\/b> Your original video on the track below should now be visible through the mask.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/finalcutmask05.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;d like to put a mask around your video in Final Cut, you can do it easily with a quick trip to Photoshop. ( By the way, this trick will work in almost any video editing program.) Step 1. Create a new image in Photoshop. For NTSC video (the standard in North America and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}