Gradient and Solid Add Blends in FCP

I am experimenting with looks to make filter packs and have foundation packs for looks.

I saw a tutorial on Creative Cow about the film look. He was using AE but i was trying to recreate it in fcp.

I used a gradient on a shot where at the bottom of the frame, there was a lot of black at the bottom of the screen. At the the top of the frame there were some framed paintings with glass on the wall. In 3 of the paintings there was a glare but that glare was at the very top.

I tried to use a gradient to give it less of a glare. The gradient went from bottom to top horizontally. with the bottom as white. Then I switched the custom generated gradient to composite mode ADD.

The paintings looked great at the top but the white bottom turned my nice clean, hard blacks to light grey and basically added a white fog to the colors at the bottom.

I switched to black at the bottom and then the black were too deep. I tried to pick a corlor but which ever one I tried gave me haze from that color.

I then tried a solid. This did the same thing. When the top of the frame looked good, the bottom didn't and in reverse also as I tried different colors.

I am sure the gradient is the way to go, but how do I negate the haze over the black?

I need the gradient to go from black at the top to transparent at the bottom . ( I think. )

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

If you're going to refer to a tutorial, you need to provide links. Which tutorial was it?



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I'm having a hard time imagining a less suitable platform than Final Cut for doing this kind of work.

Excel, maybe.

I was thinking internet explorer



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Or Tetris.

Playstation, but that sounds like Joey's department...



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Leave me outa this

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do, but just to answer your request: I need the gradient to go from black at the top to transparent at the bottom, you can apply the free filter Make Transparent to the gradient generator: this filter changes white areas of any clip into transparent areas.

Piero

Nice plug-ins, Piero. Well done.

Thanks Piero.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

ooh! Wow! You made a clone and stamp tool too? Awesome, Piero!



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Great stuff Piero. Thanks so much. I will tell the world in next newsletter.

Michael Horton
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Thanks guys... I hope these plugins are of some use.
I wrote couple of them (Field Selector, Channels) as a help to debug other plugins, but I'm not sure they may actually be useful also for video editing. Value Tester, instead, inspired by Joe Maller, obviously is just for fxscript coders.

Piero

Thats excellent Piero, very smart idea.
Thanks for sharing,
Andy

Yep That did the trick. Thanks Peiro.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

Take the time and spell people's names correctly, please. You do this to everybody. If people take the time to give you correct information, you should take the time to get their names right.


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You original method would work, you were just using the wrong blend mode. You should use multiply, which will ignore the white areas. You also can tone down the effect by not using blacks and using greys, or dropping the transparency of the clip in the timeline.

I use this method with the custom gradient generator quite frequently, especially to make nice looking vignettes inside of FCP. Here's what I mean... [www.fcsoutlet.com]

Thanks Scott that actually worked better. It looks softer. and less edgy.

I was good the other way but this is the process i was looking for.

HERE IS THE ORIGINAL AE TUTORIAL.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"