Matrox Electronic Systems Matrox RT.X2 User Manual

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Chapter 4, Setting Up Realtime Effects with Adobe Premiere Pro

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Place your foreground clip (the clip you want to superimpose onto your
background clip) directly above your matte clip, and apply the

Matrox

Track Matte

effect to this clip. Your sequence should be similar to the

following example:

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Click the triangle beside

Matrox Track Matte

to expand the property list:

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Click the triangle beside

Select Matte Source

, and select the unique ID

number that you assigned to your matte clip.

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Click the triangle beside

Composite Type

, and select any of the following

composite types:

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Alpha

Uses the alpha channel of your matte to key your foreground

image. This is applicable only if your matte is a graphics clip that has an
alpha channel, or a clip to which you’ve applied an effect that provides an
alpha channel, such as a Matrox chroma key.

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Luma 0-255

Uses the full range of luminance levels in your matte to key

your foreground image. This is applicable only if your matte contains super
black and super white luminance levels.

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Luma 16-235

Uses the standard range of luminance levels in your matte

to key your foreground image.

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To reverse the result of your track matte effect, select

Reverse

. This inverts

the key to give you the opposite result (transparent areas of your foreground
image become opaque and opaque areas become transparent).

Matrox Track Matte effect
applied to foreground clip

Matrox Source Identifier
effect applied to matte clip

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