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When you use a user shape, the vignette controls in the secondary tab to which it’s
assigned become disabled. If at any point you need to edit the shape, you must do so in
the Geometry room; the secondary corrections that use that shape will automatically
update to reflect your changes.
Using Secondary Keying and Vignettes Together
When you turn on the vignette controls while also using the HSL qualifiers to create a
secondary key, the vignette limits the matte that’s created by the key. This can be
extremely helpful when the best-keyed matte you can produce to isolate a feature in the
frame results in unwanted selections in the background that you can’t eliminate without
reducing the quality of the matte. In this case, you can use the vignette as a garbage
matte, to eliminate parts of the keyed matte that fall outside the vignette shape.
Adjusting the Inside and Outside of a Secondary Operation
You can choose whether the color, contrast, and saturation adjustments you make affect
the inside or the outside of the isolated feature using the Control pop-up menu.
One of the most powerful features of the Secondaries room is the ability to apply separate
corrections to the inside and outside of a secondary matte in the same tab. This means
that each of the eight secondary tabs can actually hold two separate corrections.
Whenever you choose another region to work on, the controls update to reflect those
settings.
• Control pop-up menu: The Control pop-up menu also provides additional commands
for modifying these settings.
• Inside: The default setting. When set to Inside, all adjustments you make affect the
interior of the secondary matte (the area in white, when looking at the mask itself).
Before inside adjustment After
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