From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks (2015)
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Understanding mask feather, opacity, and expansion - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks (2015)
Understanding mask feather, opacity, and expansion
- Let's go ahead and open sequence 6.3. We're gonna Mask them a little bit. So, let's go ahead and select this, and, let's add a Fast Blur. I can now add one Mask for one kid, and another Mask for the other kid. And you can select either Mask simply by clicking on the Mask name, right here in the Effect Controls panel. I'm going to change the amount of Blurriness, so that we see what the Masks are doing. Let me go ahead and make this a little bit bigger, so we can see it better. As you can see on this Mask right here, the edges of the Mask are very sharp. It is very defined what the area of the video that is blurred, against the area of the video that is not blurred. And maybe we wanna make that a little bit softer. There are certain values in here that we need to discuss. The first one is the Mask Feather. This is exactly what the Feathering does. If we make this value much bigger, what is happening is that now we see a gradual what is blurred, against what is not blurred, much…
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