Feather edge of 3x4 video in 9x16 project.

Jillian wrote on 6/27/2013, 9:27 PM
I'm editing a 9x16 AVCHD project in 64bit Movie Studio 12.

I have a short clip of the full moon against the night sky shot in 3x4 format, which I've placed on the timeline and it fits into the center of the frame with black pillars on either side, just as it should.

The problem is that the background of the event is dark gray and the edge between the black pillars and gray background looks really weird. I want the entire background of the event to look like the night sky.

The best I've come up with to hide the edge is to use the NewBlue selective focus effect which takes care of about 90 percent of the problem.

Is their some other way to do this? Can you change the shade of black used by Movie Studio to form the background behind images or videos? Is there another effect that would work better?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 6/27/2013, 9:28 PM
You can drop a solid color on the bottom track in whatever shade you wish.
You can use the eyedropper to match the color of your video background.
Easy as pie.
richard-amirault wrote on 6/28/2013, 5:21 PM
From a thread in the Pro Vegas Forum:

A partial quote from johnmeyer:

You sometimes can use a cookie cutter -- or the more sophisticated ability in Vegas Pro, using masks -- to let video from a lower track "show through" the mask and replace video on the upper track. The trick is getting the video on the lower track to be something that is less obnoxious to look at than the thing you are trying to remove. Depending on your video, and depending on whether the mouse cursor is in motion, you may find that you can use a combination of moving the video on the lower (replacement) track a few frames in one direction or the other, and also using pan/crop on the lower track replacement event to make the replacement video "line up" with your main video. By doing this, you are actually using video from nearby frames where the object to be replaced doesn't appear in the same position as the current frame.

This might work for you.
musicvid10 wrote on 6/28/2013, 9:20 PM
With all respect, brighterside, that's a lot of work.
Matching (or altering and matching) the original backround is an easier approach, and rarely visible when the whole thing is rendered to REC 709.
Jillian wrote on 6/28/2013, 11:58 PM
Thanks, Musicvid!

That was just what I needed, and it worked perfectly. I had tried using a solid color and the cookie cutter above my event, but I couldn't get it to look right. I had never thought of putting the color below the clip to serve as the background.

Again, thanks for a simple solution to what had become a very frustrating exercise.