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winrockpost wrote on 10/3/2009, 6:11 PM
cookie cutter will give you a decent one. Not at the edit computer but fool around with it for a couple a minutes and you will .figure it out
farss wrote on 10/3/2009, 6:42 PM
You'll two cookie cutter FXs, one after the other to get the two round cutouts. Maybe feather the edges a little to make it more realistic.

Bob.

[edit] Always a good idea to put a track of legal black (16,16,16) under any of these things too.You could make it smidge brighter in this case for that 14th coat of wax touch of realism.
Serena wrote on 10/3/2009, 6:56 PM
Realism? I know it's a convention but anyone who has looked through binoculars knows that you see just a circular FOV.
farss wrote on 10/4/2009, 3:11 PM
Good point.
Now that you've made me think about it my solution fails completely. Both 'eyes' should show the same image.

Bob.

winrockpost wrote on 10/4/2009, 3:24 PM
use just one cookie cutter , choose circle, set repeat x to 2, this gives you 2 circles, then size it so the two just break and becomes one with little bit of black in the center top and bottom.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/4/2009, 3:44 PM
Download this file (right-click and Save As):

Binocular matte

Place on the track above your video and set the track compositing for that track to "Multiply (Mask)." Adjust the pan/crop settings for the mask to determine how much of the video you want.

I created this mask in about ten seconds on my photo editor. I created a file at 4x SD video size (so I wouldn't get jaggies if I had to zoom in a lot on the mask). I then filled the entire frame with pure black. I then created a pure white circle. I duplicated that circle and then overlapped the two circles slightly. Finally, I aligned the two circles vertically.