Oh fantastic. Just shot a talking head yesterday for a friend in the tightest room possible and struggled to create depth. Exactly the fine adjustments I’ll need. Thank you so much!
This has been so useful, I’m going to try and apply it as much as I can! The more I learn about Final Cut Pro the more I realise how much I don’t know!
prime example how the new built-in background remover feature would save a lot of time (worked with keyper plugin before). side note: the built-in vignette has the big draw-back up strong banding (compression artefacts due to lacking color info) if you export in h264 (8bit 420) which most of users do. there is a better one by industrial revolution (fxfactory).
The drawback is that is a bit of a broad brush technique. It will work in some situations where you have objects where the edges are relatively static. But with lots of movement or particular areas of detail you may run into some funny looking edges. Doing a full 'focus pull' would be tough with this setup.
Thank you very useful, quick question what is the the difference between (inverting a shape mask or using the inner or outer selections) because I have been always used Inner outer selection and the results are not as good as what you’ve showed. Look forward to your reply or a tutorial on this subject.
Both may do the same thing. You can copy and paste shape masks to another clip independently of the effect but practically you may not notice much difference.
@@JennaScaramanga yup.. Turned out that i didn't have the effects section opened It's the third button to the left down there... Search for focus and you'll find it
@@chillywagschal325 you can now do this with the build in plugins in Final Cut Pro. Check out this video - ruclips.net/video/Mj7IvGF5edQ/видео.html - let me know if you have a any questions.
That is strange... do you have your playhead in the right position? Perhaps send me a screen recording of what you see... share it as an unlisted video here on RUclips and pop the link here.
Oh fantastic. Just shot a talking head yesterday for a friend in the tightest room possible and struggled to create depth. Exactly the fine adjustments I’ll need. Thank you so much!
Glad this was helpful. How are the edits going?
finally, another great guy without any third party plugins! nice. i hate vids with all those nonsense of external not for free plugins
Glad you enjoyed.
This has been so useful, I’m going to try and apply it as much as I can! The more I learn about Final Cut Pro the more I realise how much I don’t know!
Thanks for the kind words Alexandra. If you ever have any FCP questions then you can send them my way!
Works great! Thanks Ben!
You're welcome!
thank you I'll def need to watch this a few times...
It is a jam-packed tutorial for sure! Lots of useful stuff in there :-)
@@BenjaminHalsall I'm back two years later... Thank you
You just got a life time subscriber!! Thank you!!
So happy you liked this video.
good one. thanks
Super useful thank you so much 🙏
Thank you for only using built in plug ins!
Simply fantastic as usual. Thank you
Thanks for the kind words Nava Arts!
Your videos really helped me a lot I appreciate you🙏
Thanks! Would love to see some of the videos you are making.
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@@MrFixu Nice, I like it.
🙏Thanks
This was a great video Thank You . I can’t wait to try it Tommorow when I do my edits.
Hope this was useful for you.
Thank you for this! Have been looking for these tutorials for a while!
Glad I could help!
prime example how the new built-in background remover feature would save a lot of time (worked with keyper plugin before). side note: the built-in vignette has the big draw-back up strong banding (compression artefacts due to lacking color info) if you export in h264 (8bit 420) which most of users do. there is a better one by industrial revolution (fxfactory).
very helpful - thank you!
Really happy it helped.
Wow. This is so so so helpful. Thank you!
You are most welcome.
Thanks for the help!
No problem!
super helpful, thank you
You're welcome!
Can someone explain the drawbacks? Like what would be a drawback or the limit of this technique that one could avoid by physically pulling the focus?
The drawback is that is a bit of a broad brush technique. It will work in some situations where you have objects where the edges are relatively static. But with lots of movement or particular areas of detail you may run into some funny looking edges. Doing a full 'focus pull' would be tough with this setup.
This was great thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very useful, quick question what is the the difference between (inverting a shape mask or using the inner or outer selections) because I have been always used Inner outer selection and the results are not as good as what you’ve showed. Look forward to your reply or a tutorial on this subject.
Both may do the same thing. You can copy and paste shape masks to another clip independently of the effect but practically you may not notice much difference.
i can't find the focus effect in Blur tab in FC ! .. is it a plugin i ned to download ?
I also have this problem. Did you find an answer?
@@JennaScaramanga yup.. Turned out that i didn't have the effects section opened
It's the third button to the left down there... Search for focus and you'll find it
@@mohamedmustafa32 Oh yeah, I was looking at the blur transitions. Doh!
Thanks - great video, been wanting to find out how to do this, just what I needed :) cheers Ben.
No problem 👍 really happy the tutorial was helpful!
You said it was using just final cut tools but the first thing you say in your tutorial is to get an adjustment layer from some link....
Great video! Thank you
Thanks so much! Glad you found it helpful.
can you do a post tracking operation to blur the background on a subject? Say you want a subject walking around
You can keyframe the layer masks but do do automatic tracking you will need a plugin.
@@BenjaminHalsall which plugin would do so?
@@chillywagschal325 you can now do this with the build in plugins in Final Cut Pro. Check out this video - ruclips.net/video/Mj7IvGF5edQ/видео.html - let me know if you have a any questions.
Awesome
Thanks so much Emma! Glad you like the video.
Can you put some practice videos please
That is a good idea. I would recommend Pexels.com if you need some video footage to practice on.
Ok I just found pixabay.com as well loving it man
I dont know whether you will respond to this comment however when i try to add the blur effect onto my clip it doesnt show up.
That is strange... do you have your playhead in the right position? Perhaps send me a screen recording of what you see... share it as an unlisted video here on RUclips and pop the link here.
4 minute nonsense. vid starts at 4:00 thank me later, but beware, he's blablablaing alot
Haha, I do love a bit of blablaing from time to time!