Class Project 08 - Track Matte

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Iulia Tegzes

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Wow this took a long time. I ran into sooo many issues. I downloaded some matte transitions from envato elements and some videos prom pexels. First, the transition was working but it was just like a small square, I adjusted the scale of the transition to encompass the entire image. Then, the transition was not working because when the second video started, it was changing to that one, then added the transition between the first one and the second one. I went back to the video, checked everything, I made a new sequence and tried with the videos from the project; it did the same thing; I tried with the transition 5 provided by Dan. didn't work. tried with the transition we used during the course - it worked! I thought about so many things, maybe wrong type of video, wrong type of transition, I searched for only luma matte and made sure it was on luma in effect controls. still didn't work. I changed the order of the videos, so I had the first video on track 2 and the second one on track 1. It seemed to be working better somehow. At one point, I turned off the track matte effect in effect controls just by clicking on it there and what? the transition was working. I honestly have no idea. so that is the first transition. The second one was also strange, did the same things, tried it with the third video on track 2, didn't work. I moved everything one track above so that I could make it the same as the first one; adjusted the scale again; finally, it worked. I also did a lot of internet research during this, found that a lot of people say matte transitions sometimes don't work, I don't know if that's true, what's strange is that the first transition in my video is technically with the "track matte effect" off but it works.

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Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott & I’m an award winning Adobe Certified Instructor. Welcome to the Premiere Pro Advanced Course.

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Hi everyone, it is time for a class project. This one is to create a Track Matte transition. So it can be a Luma Matte or Alpha Matte, up to you. I'd love you to use your own files that you're transitioning between. If you don't have anything go to pexels.com. If you, for some reason can't get to either of these places, you can use some from the Exercise Files. I'd like you to find your own Transition Matte. So Google around, you're going to have to explore different ones and test them, so that's part of it. Finding ones that work well, some of them that don't. 

If you-- you know, as a last resort, I've got one in your 'Exercise Files', it's called 'Matte 5'. You can use that one, at least practice with that one, and for the thing that you actually upload and share, try and find your own transition. You don't have to, you can use Matte 5 if you want. So transition between at least two clips, do a couple, grab a couple of them, string them together, do a couple of transitions. Optionally add some music, and if you do run into problems, I bet you will, transitions using these Mattes can be problematic. Some of them just don't work, because there's a million people making them. 

So let us know, issues you had, and if you overcame them, it'd be great, because you'd be able to share with other people, and then be able to see how they might get around it. If you just couldn't make it work let us know, what we got stuck, we might be able to help, or it might be just a good indication of some things don't work with Track Mattes. 

So upload your video, so render it, upload your video to Behance or Vimeo, or something else, and share it in the Assignments Project section of this page, and also share on social media, I'd like to see what you made. All right, that is class project 8, Track Mattes. Let's get on to the next video.

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