Final Cut Ghost
So after what was a long night of working hard, I managed to piece together footage shot on a camcorder and import it to Final Cut Pro. With a brief demonstration on what techniques I would need to use to create the effect I had envisaged, I then went on to play around with the program. To my shock and bewilderment I managed to adjust the film to the point where the background was normal, yet I had become ghostly (in an opaque sense)! This shocked me, and it took a while for me to understand how this interesting mistake was created. I knew that I had lowered the opacity on one level of the film, but couldn’t work out why the background wasn’t affected yet my whole body WAS. The ghostly effect was then pointed out to me, and made clearer in understanding that the fixed camera footage was overlayed by my other video track in of which I did not appear in frame. Therefore the video footage of myself was had a lower alpha channel and created a see-threw layer which then was ontop of the same background making the scene look rich in color and the moving object (me) ghostly and opaque. Now I know what I can achieve with this style, in the future I might recreate this effect when a ghost, spirit, or any other see through object is needed.
this is the image with the ghostly figure.
this is the regular footage, with its true un-edited alpha channels.
this is the shot when I am out of frame.
this shows the altered alpha channels on the two video tracks, which overall gave the ghostly effect.
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