Creating a "highlight" spot??

williamconifer wrote on 3/8/2003, 8:39 AM

I'm creating a demo/educational video with footage taken from Camtasia Studio screen capture. It shows a mouse pointer moving around the screen and clicking on things. I want to highlight in yellow the button the mouse pointer is going to click on as it happens. The highlight should be transparent enough so you can still see the image underneath. I will need to use different shapes that will change as the video goes along. Obviously I realize keyframing is needed. However I don't know if the cookie cutter or compositing it the right way to go. Being that I have never dinked around with either fx I am a bit clueless on this. Any ideas, instruction or tips would be much appreciated.

thanks
jack

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Tyler.Durden wrote on 3/8/2003, 9:29 AM

Hi Jack,

We could have some fun with this...

How about using a large graphic-font like monotype sorts or webdings to be your highlight:

You can make the face tranparent and the edge glow (as an outline) and make the background black, but somewhat transparent.

If you fade in the title (properly positioned to be over the area of interest) it will appear as though the background were dimming and an outline around the area were fading in.

For odd-shapes you could make a white on black graphic and use it as a mask. An easy way is to grab a pic from the video and trace around it on a new layer in photoshop (or yur favorite app), then save just the B&W element as the graphic.

HTH, MPH

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