Cookie Cutter HELP

thebrain900 wrote on 1/20/2008, 7:45 PM
I am using Movie Studio 8.0 and I need some help finding out how to use the Cookie Cutter??

I am going to explane what I want to do and then maybe you can tell me step by step what I should do??

I have a video clip of a woman wlking into a room. I want to cut the woman out of that video clip and put her into a video clip that I have of my living room.
So it will look like she is walking into my Living room.

Is this what the Cookie Cutter if for???
If not please tell me what I need to do
Thanks Robert

Comments

MSmart wrote on 1/20/2008, 7:51 PM
HERE is the response the last time you asked.

I don't think Movie Studio can do what you want.
Himanshu wrote on 1/20/2008, 8:28 PM
Directly from the on-line help:

"Use the Cookie Cutter effect to create picture-in-picture effects or to crop your video."
MSmart wrote on 1/20/2008, 10:56 PM
"Use the Cookie Cutter effect to create picture-in-picture effects or to crop your video."

That's not what he wants to do. If I understand correctly, he want's to crop out the background video (as if by green screen) leaving just the person, then overlaying it ontop of another video. Cookie Cutter won't do that.
Himanshu wrote on 1/21/2008, 10:59 AM
MSmart - I did not suggest that Cookie Cutter was the right tool for the poster. One of the questions was, "Is this what the Cookie Cutter if for???" to which I replied what Cookie cutter was for (directly out of the help).

The forum doesn't have nice tools for quoting, but I should have formatted the text to be clear.
Paul Mead wrote on 1/21/2008, 12:22 PM
Right, Cookie Cutter is not the right tool for the job.

What you want to use is "difference masking". You can read a tutorial on it here.
menopausal wrote on 1/21/2008, 12:38 PM
Does this work in VMS or just Vegas?
Himanshu wrote on 1/21/2008, 1:10 PM
Interesting tutorial, but I'm wondering the same thing menopausal is. I tried to duplicate in SVMS8 PE, but I can't get multi-level compositing tracks where track 1 is parent of 2, and track 2 is parent of 3. SVMS8 seems to allow only single-level compositing tracks, i.e. 1 is parent of 2 and 3.

EDIT Just figured it out: I have to select both tracks 2 & 3, then select "make compositing child" to make the 1 parent of 2, 2 parent of 3 relationship.

It also appears this works only if the camera isn't moving. Overall it's a good technique to know about and I've bookmarked it for reference. Thanks.