Can anyone reproduce this Ron Scott effect???

allan-finney wrote on 5/5/2018, 7:25 AM

I've tried for a few days to reproduce this Ron Scott effect - it seems like you could essentially "green screen" any locked off shot with a background (and no green screen). Wow. This would be so useful for a project I'm working on.
He's using Vegas Pro 11 I believe and I'm using version 15 and I've gone step by step by step through it but I can't get the text behind me!!! I've tried filming two different scenes but for whatever reason I can't reproduce the effect.

I'm sure any one of the experts out there could do this in a few minutes and say whether it's possible or not. His tutorial link is on the third post in this discussion (alternative to masking):

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/automatic-adjust-of-masks--100063/

If anyone could reproduce this and maybe even do an updated tutorial or even just tell me if it's possible in Vegas Pro 15???

These forums are AMAZING and I love the willingness to help advance the art. Much thanks in advance,

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fr0sty wrote on 5/5/2018, 10:13 AM

It's definitely possible, though for the highest quality results, I'd look into motion tracking tech like Mocha:

https://borisfx.com/products/mocha/

That isn't reliant on you being able to clean the video up enough using difference masks for a clean keying out of the background... and you can also do cool 3D tracking effects with it where your text is locked to a certain area in 3D space that pans and moves along with your camera's movements naturally.

For fastest results, I'd suggest posting your project file here so we can see where you are going wrong with it. Either that, or a video of you going through the steps so we can see where the problem lies.

allan-finney wrote on 5/5/2018, 10:29 AM

Ok, I'll have to go through it again and create the files - I've messed with it so much that it's unuseable at this point.