Color correction shape mask keyframes!!!

Using FCPX for color correction, but when I add a shape mask and animate it using keyframes, I have no way to smooth the keyframes and control their smoothness!!! Someone PLEASE tell me I'm just missing on the way to do it... I tried everything.
Thanks

I created some animatable masks (keyframeable on-screen control points). It's three keying effects: a single 4 point mask (like the one that comes with FCPX), a two 4 point set (essentially an 8-point), and a four 4 point set (essentially a 16-point.)
Please watch the video for best use guides. Most of the time, layering on 2 or more single 4 point mask shapes is quite addequte to do most of your masking needs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_l2K6rXwGw
These effects are free. You can use them any way you like, but please don't redistribute (or sell) them -- direct people to the above link instead.

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After lots of projects in FCE, I should know this!
I have a clip with a color correction filter and keyframes at either end of the clip.
Question: If I break the clip in two, am I correct that the color correction filter and keyframes are no longer shared by the two clips? Changes made to one clip's keyframes no longer effect the other clip's color correction settings?

That's correct.

How to keyframe color-correction effects.

I have seen the odd question bemoaning the inability of FCP X to keyframe color-corrections but as I have no interest in doing such things I have paid no attention.
However, I discovered in a Ken Stone article that color corrections can be keyframed using a free filter from Ripple Training.
The RT tutorial and a link to the filter can be found here:-
http://www.rippletraining.com/using-the-rt-color-balance-effect-in-final-cut-pro -x.html
Apologies if almost everyone else already knows this, but I am sure there will be somebody (like me) who doesn't.
The original Ken Stone article on all types of FCP X keyframing is here:-
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_keyframing_effects_stone.html

One way to 'keyframe' colour correction with FCP X is to add the clip to the storyline, then move the playhead back to the beginning of that clip and use 'Q' in the Event Browser to add the same clip again as a connected clip, above the original.
Colour correct one of the clips, then keyframe the opacity of one of them to effect the change you want.
Andy

Secondary Color Correction End Softness

Here is a little something that has driven me insane across all versions (sans 8.1 which doesn't work on my machine)...
Lets say you are using secondary color correction to mask out the sky above a mountain range - you know, like every single video tutorial on the subject does - so you get it dialed in as much as you can until you are left with that nasty pixel fakey line along where the heavens meet the earth which screams "hey look everyone this guy is faking the sky color here". But you don't admit defeat yet and you of course go for that trusty almost magical "End Softness" slider. You drag it a bit and see that it indeed does blend/feather/fix your SCC mask up quite nicely except one glaring problem. The End Softness adjustment has also feathered in the very far left/right outside edges of your clip/frame as well - rendering the usefulness of the secondary color correction ... well... completely non-useful.
If it helps to clarify what I mean, the unwanted side effect I am describing also happens when you use Gaussian blur (premiere, photoshop, etc) but is remedied when you simply check the little "Repeat Edge Pixels" box.
Anyone else ever have their secondary color correction attempts utterly deflated by this occurrence?

I would imagine it is something to do with how softness or blurring samples surrounding pixels. When you reach the edge of the frame the edge pixels won't haven't neighbours all the way round for the effect to look at. As you said it is like the gaussian blur. Why there is no 'Repeat Edge Pixels' option, I don't know. I think you are possibly wasting your time asking the why on these forums. As long as you can get to the how, then be happy you achieve the desired outcome you are after

How to inverse the effect of shape mask for color correction ?

To change the effect on a particular portion of the frame we use shape mask is there a way to keep the portion under the mask intact and change the color outside it ? For eg specially if the area to keep unchanged is in the middle of the frame.....?

At the bottom of the color board you have separate controls for inside and outside.

Keyframe shape mask effects?

Can you keyframe shape mask effects?
I'm trying to keyframe a simple shape mask effecting the outside area: -86 exposure to 0 exposure, meaning that first, inside the mask all is seen, while outside llittle is seen, then move to 0 exposure where all is seen. But clicking keyframes next to shape mask (below Color Correction 1) doesn't work. I input -86, click keyframe then move to where I want and input 0, but that's how the whole clip appears with no gradation changes.
Any suggestions?

I created some animatable masks (keyframeable on-screen control points). It's three keying effects: a single 4 point mask (like the one that comes with FCPX), a two 4 point set (essentially an 8-point), and a four 4 point set (essentially a 16-point.)
Please watch the video for best use guides. Most of the time, layering on 2 or more single 4 point mask shapes is quite addequte to do most of your masking needs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_l2K6rXwGw
These effects are free. You can use them any way you like, but please don't redistribute (or sell) them -- direct people to the above link instead.

Masked color correction - new Pr Pro CC features or still use After Effects?

I am finally getting around to this project. I know in CS6 the solution was to use After Effects. I think I kept putting it off as I was not as familiar with that program as I am with PrPro.
Anyway this is the issue. I have 2 hours of old video I have captured that due to an internal camera malfunction (that was not discovered until the end of the tape)
that has 5 or 6 cyan tinted narrow horizontal transparent bars running through it. The image is there under the bars, it is just viewed through this cyan
tint. The rest of the image outside of the bars is fine and the image inside the bars is fine, it just has a tint. This is old SD footage.
An AE expert said I can make an Adjustment Layer in AE and use the Mask Shape Tool to draw several boxes around the problem cyan areas, apply the Curves and Hue/Saturation effect to the adjustment layer, then color correct. Some feathering would be needed (I know PS too so I can handle that part ) I think I recall back with PrProCS6, I could do this adjustment but only one bar at a time. I could be wrong about that.
But anyway, sounds pretty easy in AE. But since I live in PrPro CC 2014 now, and I saw some recent new features with masks and adjustments, I was wondering if I could perform the same adjustments right in Pr Pro CC 2014? If I need to use AE CC 2014, no worries, I have that installed.
Thanks for the help as always! This is family footage that I would really like to rescue.
BJBBJB1

Thanks so much Dave. It fixed the problem.
Raoul.

How to keyframe the color correction

Hi!
Is there any way to do keyframing in color correction, but use a pen tool in motion tab for each individual parameter separetly?
User manual gives an impression that it might be possible to make keyframes in color correctors visual view:
http://koti.welho.com/tsuonio1/Color-Corrector-missing-but.jpg
So that when there is a clip where exposure changes, it could be corrected in color corrector, and add the keyframe so that values changes gradually from previous keyframe.

Thanks for answering.
In a way it does automatically add keyframes:
I have a *color corrector* tab in a separate window, and everytime I make changes in it, the new keyframe appears in filters tab graph-line-indicator of that particular parameter.
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Add keyframes color-correcting a clip

I'm using Final Cut Pro 10.1.4 on an iMac with Yosemite 10.10.1.
When I try adding multiple sequential color corrections in a single clip, there is no way to add keyframes to each correction.
In the video inspector the add keyframe symbol does not appear.
In the show video animation window, if I clik "control k" the keyframe symbol does appear, but if I add more than 1 keyframe only the last one is active, so I can only correct the entire clip.
Is there any way to add more than 1 sequential correction using keyframes, instead of cutting che clip into multiple segment and correcting each one of them?

I have an RGB Channel Mixer that can be keyframed.
First, I recommend turning on Video Scopes (RGB Parade) and turning off the Color board for the title (you do not want to accidentally color grade the title).
RGB Channel Mixer is a title effect, so just drag it over the region you need to color "mix". You can use this effect in conjunction with the color board for the storyline clip. (Do not color correct the channel mixer!
You can toggle the view with the channel mixer selected — type 'v'.
You can download it here: RGB Channel Mixer
It won't hurt to try it and if you don't like it - just delete it. (It's still a bit of an experiment at this point.)
The effect works by mixing the red, green and blue channels separately against a black background solid. The Amount values use opacity to change the mix. The Boost values are different. They add a little "gain" in the channel. There's a subtle difference between the two. Contrast and Brightness controls are added to help with the lack of range assist (shadow, mids, highlights).

(three-way color corrector) secondary color correction masks not working?

Hi I'm using PP 2014 on Yosemite. Anyone notice (three-way color corrector) secondary color correction masks not working?

strange. same stats here but im getting intermittent.... sometimes i can use the mask and the effect is only limited to the masked area. most of the time the masked area is ignored and the effect is applied to the whole image

Shapes Color Correction and more Shapes

Is there a way to apply the same color correction to different shapes? Like a copy paste function. If you save the grade it corrects the whole thing? Can you be that specific?

on the cusp of being kick butt!
Comparing applications on a feature-by-feature basis is sort of a dangerous game of diminishing returns, especially when the ultimate consumer cares not a jot about how a service provider ultimately delivers the product.
A good colorist can accomplish anything with Apple COLOR that any other colorist might with any other system, but as far as development goes, the parent company does not welcome or collaborate with its practitioners in any way even remotely resembling the relationship that other grading software companies have with their customers. So... COLOR, born as Final Touch has been "on the cusp" for about 5 years or more, but as far as consulting with its professional clientele goes, other than Beta-testing with a highly select group of mostly FCP 'insiders'... nada.
To a certain extent, if there was some requirement to come up with an instrument that anybody in the orchestra could play, then Apple has come close to delivering that. Well, actually Silicon Color did, and Apple finally admitted them into the inner sanctum. From that point though, what the virtuosi looked upon as promising, but somewhat crude and not a little bit clumsy -- especially with its notorious roundtrip complications, has not advanced much. I had to laugh when a long-time FCP practitioner announced that he was going to wait for COLOR 2 -- you just can't trust those 1.0 offerings... oh, man, what's in the box these days is FinalTouch, oh maybe about 2.8 or so... maybe 2.8.5 (Release Candidate)? But not 3.0.
The fact that this particular app is packaged as a bonus with the Final Cut Suite makes it difficult to justify development money -- sinking more code into it will not result in a significant enough return when framed against the requirements of the general Final Cut congregation, the vast majority of whom do not even engage in color correction. My deepest fear is that they will "Shake" the app and pillage some of its features into Motion or something equally horrific. "On the cusp" could be just as easily "on the bubble".
As it stands however, it certainly has opened the door for some -- and so we do manage to satisfy a number of clients and make life difficult for competitors while eking out a poverty-level living. ;-P
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Losing Mask when color correcting

I am trying to isolate a certain color, so I applied a mask in Motion because I get a much better/easier mask there. I bring it back in to FCP and add color correction, no problem. But the second I try to limit the effect it is gone. It is like that makes the alpha go away or something. Any thoughts to why this is happening and any suggestions?
Thanks as always
Shawn

Ok, let me try this again.
On track one I have a clip that is black and white.
On track two I have the same clip that I have put a mask on in Motion. Which is over an object that I want to isolate the color which in this case is orange.
I add a color correction filter to clip 2, then I clip on the limit effect triangle in color correction and use the dropper to select the orange from my clip.
At the point the mask immediately disappears. That is about as clear as I can make it.
All I want to know is why this is happening and a possible work aroound. Color might be the be solution for this down the road, but would like to figure this problem out for now if possible.

Add an inertia script to mask/shape-path keyframes?

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manojit

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Eric

Animate opacity of shape mask in color?

I have a shape mask that I'd like to fade in and then out. The Opacity attribute under Video for the clip affects the entire clip. Is there a way to do this?
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Scot

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Case For Rotobrush & Mask Keyframe Question

Hi,
Just wanted to make sure the below sample is a case for Rotobrush. Obviously I've never used it before, however I'd like to maintain the color, (excuse the crappy mask), I've created in the water in the first shot, throughout the sequence of cuts. When the woman moves across the aquarium, I'll need to rotoscope her correct? Any tips? I will however be reading the manual!
http://vimeo.com/39579490
And the mask question - I should know this but for some reason, (in another comp), my mask changed shape over thime. It was the same tank you see above, but it was a dolly shot and the tank didn't change shape! You'll laugh but I ended up resetting the mask points in 291 frames, and it still didn't work as the variations in mask shapes created a flicker after applying color correction, levels etc.
Shouldn't I be able to go to the end of the comp. Draw the mask shape I want, keyframe Mask Shape; then go to the beginning of the comp - set the position of the mask and keyframe again. Please tell me where I'm going wrong!
And; is there a way to keyframe a "transform" of the mask shape during time? Essentially changing the size and shape of the mask, I was only able to do this frame-by-frame.
As always, much gratitude for everyone's guidance, patience and knowledge!
Best,
Jesse

I actually wasn't using auto-trace, I drew the shapes with bezier points as one would in PS. Not sure what you mean by vertices? Didn't move the layer. My apologies for not painting a better picture. I'd like to post a screen shot, but don't see the camera icon! How do I do that, is it possible without the hassle of using flikr or photobucket?
Ok, not quite sure if you answered my question, (and yeah, my 291 frame marathon freaked me out a little.). How do I maintain the shape of a mask from beginning to end of a comp? (there will be variations as it comes into frame etc., I think I can handle that), but why wouldn't the mask hold shape when I keyframed beginning and end?
Now, with the above referenced Vimeo clip, the shot where the artist crosses the aquarium - won't that require multiple mattes on multiple solids, or layers as there are a bunch of spaces where we see the aquarium? AE will not allow more than one mask on a layer correct? Unlike PS!! Or am I wrong about that?
Would I be linking the solid with the matte(s) to a null object and then tracking that?
Many thanks again for your time - I hope my questions aren't too convoluted!
Jesse

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