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Editing green screen footage on FCPX

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11 Apr 2014 15:03 #44386 by DreadSun
Hi,

I have a static background i would like to impose some green screen footage of a person over.

The camera will be moving a lot, e.g. dolly shots, pans etc.

Would i have to use physical motion trackers on the green screen for the editing to look convincing or is there a way on FCPX or maybe Motion to achieve this?

My guess is i need trackers but any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

DreadSun

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11 Apr 2014 16:53 #44391 by BenB
Motion's trackers can do this just fine. In fact in the book "Apple Pro Training Series: Motion 5", there is an exercise that does this exact task. You'd do a "Match Move" in Motion to match the live action camera's dollying around, to the static background layer, which will move/skew the background to match. Don't know any other tutorials about this online. Although it basically is this same technique here:
www.macprovideo.com/hub/motion/tracking-motion-5

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11 Apr 2014 18:05 #44394 by DreadSun
Excellent! Sounds exactly what i was looking for. Guessing it wont be as accurate as trackers but im sure i can work around it.
Thank you very much, appreciated

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11 Apr 2014 19:59 #44397 by BenB
It is using trackers.

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