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Adding and Removing External Mattes

If you’ve been provided with matte files to accompany one or more media files used by a program you’re grading, you can attach them directly to specific clips in the Media Pool, in order to use them as key sources for a Clip Grade in the Node Editor of the Color page. You can even use matte files that pack multiple mattes within a single piece of media. This can be done by either writing different mattes to each of the red, green, and blue channels of a clip, or by embedding multiple matte passes within a single OpenEXR file.


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Matching RGB and Matte images


When the Media Pool is in Icon view, clips with clip mattes appear with a badge.


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A clip matte, seen in Icon view

 

What Are Mattes For?Adding MattesUsing Embedded Mattes in OpenEXR Files