[Jon Hiseman] "duplicate the clip above the original / sandwich a gradient in between, change the blend mode of the top clip and regrade it. The gradient had simple controls to isolate a portion of the clip. The killer part was that these could be stacked. I have had 15 of these sets of 3 tracks stacked in no time at all."
Hi John,
Forgive me if I'm missing something, but you can use travel matte effects, gradients, and blend modes in Premiere Pro very easily.
Unlike FCP, blend modes run in real time. In FCP, you
always had to render anything with the blending mode changed.
Let us know exactly what you would like to see in a future version of Premiere Pro here:
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
Kevin Monahan
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Adobe After Effects
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