Add to Background in Vegas Pro 19

grg wrote on 1/9/2022, 10:19 PM

First post here...I have been trying to find this everywhere until I ended up here for help.

I want to learn how to add elements to my background. For example, add mountains in the background of a video where the horizon is relatively flat.

I just bought Vegas Pro 19 and here are some specs. Thank you for your assistance or pointing me in the right direction.

Specs:

  • Windows 10 Home; Version 20H2
  • Processor - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz   3.70 GHz
  • RAM - 32.0 GB

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Dexcon wrote on 1/9/2022, 11:45 PM

What you are seeking to do would probably be achieved by compositing. At this stage, the best thing to do would be to look at some of the tutorials on YouTube that have been uploaded over the last 10 years about how to composite in Vegas Pro. The following link was found simply by a YT search using the keywords 'Vegas Pro compositing' - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vegas+pro+compositing

You can always alter the search by using YT's filter options or by changing the search keywords.

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grg wrote on 1/10/2022, 12:48 AM

Thanks Dexcon.

Now knowing that it is a method of compositing, I will research. Thanks for the direction.

Former user wrote on 1/10/2022, 4:24 AM

@grg Hi, There's a few ways to do this, masks would be my first thought but not too easy if the camera is moving, you'd have to look at Motion Tracking to make the mask follow the horizon,

compositing can be a bit confusing at first but it's just a way of layering tracks,

You can create a mask using Bézier Masking fx

or at the bottom of your event on the timeline is a sq looking symbol, this will open a window that allows you to draw a mask

You can create a b/w mask in a photoshop type program, apply it like in this pic, add Mask Generator, make the second track a 'Child' of the first track & set it to Multiply (Mask)

If the sky is a consistent blue colour, you could Chromakey it out to make it transparent....

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grg wrote on 1/10/2022, 8:31 PM

Thank you Gid! Great info all around....