blur out only small part of frame (as seen in COPS) - HOW?!

RichardKimble wrote on 4/20/2005, 11:40 AM
Hi,
Let's say you have a still shot of the back of a parked car. I want to blur ONLY the license plate and follow it as the car pulls away. Or another example to help illustrate what i'm trying to do is seen all the time on COPS when they blur out a persons head and follow it.

I'm familiar with track motion and using key frames to handle the re-sizing and following motion. It's the bluring of only PART of the frame that i can't figure out. I tried throwing an empty event above it and resizing and blurring that but with no success.

Does anyone know the best way to accomplish this in Vegas? (I hope it's really easy and i'm just overlooking something...)

Much MUCH thanks!

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 4/20/2005, 11:44 AM
You'll need to use two tracks. Place identical copies of the video on two tracks, one lined up below the other. Apply the cookie cutter effect to the upper track and use keyframes to follow the area you want to blur. Place the burring effect of your choice on the lower track.
pjrey wrote on 4/20/2005, 2:52 PM
it states clearly how to do this in the Contents and help.... under the tab, "how to do..."

right there...
just look

pj
wolfbass wrote on 4/20/2005, 3:21 PM
Edward Troxel has an excellent article on this in one of his newsletters. Go to www.thetroxels.com and load down this edition and you're away.

All of Edward's newsletters are worth loading down IMO.

Andy
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/20/2005, 3:26 PM
PJ - no one likes an RTFM guy (Read that fun manual ;) ) So just cool your jets man :)

Dave
RichardKimble wrote on 4/20/2005, 3:29 PM
Thanks to Chienworks,wolfbass, and Dave! PJ, your reply could probably apply to the majority of questions asked in this forum. If we had time to search the manual, we would. It's much quicker, easier, and I get better resuts asking real people who've done this stuff here in the forums. Thanks for at least replying though.

Later all!
jetdv wrote on 4/20/2005, 8:42 PM
Actually, my website is www.jetdv.com (hence my forum name). You can go to the other one but then you'd have to click the proper link.