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Hello all.
I am interested in figuring out how to take a grey scale image, and make it a mask maintaining the various levels of grey as various levels of transparency.
So black would be o% transparent and white would be 100% transparent.
I can't figure out a good approach to this.
The various key tools allow for filtering a range to a fully opaque mask, not what I want.
I want a variable matte, maintaining the variety of density driven by the greys.
Any direction appreciated.
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Casey

The Scan cleaner would transfer a bw image into these transparencies, but TVP can't use this as a mask on a different layer the same way as it peserves alpha on the same layer.

Yes it can :)

You have to activate "Stencil" on the gray-level layer, and then it will only draw (in any layer) where there is already opacity in this layer.

I'm interested in this issue and created a custom panel that behaves the same as the After Effects plugin "Unmult". Is your goal different from this?

Yes, my goal is different.
I am interested in maintaining the full 256 steps of potential variation in transparency of a mask, (or alpha whichever you prefer) driven by the grey scale of the source image(s).
So were it a full color image, first step is a black and white conversion. No problem. Then a conversion to a variable density mask/alpha image based on the grey scale. 0% black = 100% transparent, 25% black = 75% transparent 50% black = 50% transparent 75% black = 25% transparent 100% black = 0% transparent, and every step in between these as well. Equivalent to a gradient mask/alpha driven by the image.
Thanks for the interest and feedback on this.
Scan Cleaner does not do this in my estimation. It is more like the color keying tools and isolates a range that then is the mask/alpha.

Ok, I misunderstood...
Convert to B&W.
Then try the Luma Keyer with these values : Because of data validation, you have to input the 255s from right to left...

Thanks ematecki!
This was a great solution to what I was trying to do!
I so appreciate your assist.
Be well and thank you!