Garbage Mask in Vegas 4.0?

Cam_Rewop wrote on 5/12/2003, 9:22 AM
I've been looking for this capability in Vegas for the past day or two. Admittedly, I'm new so I may have missed it.

I'm looking to create a "Garbage Mask". Basically a n sided polygon you can generate from within Vegas by specifying the vertices. Also giving you the ability to animate the vertex positions over time.

Does Vegas allow you to do anything like this?

Thanks!

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BillyBoy wrote on 5/12/2003, 11:04 AM
Can't do that in Vegas, except for simple masks like a square, circle, etc., using the cookie cutter filter. Use search above to locate many threads on how to use cookie cutter and make simple masks. For more complex masks you need something like the soon to be released Boris Red plug-in. You can mask by hue and lumience, but I don't think that's really what you're looking for.
SonyDennis wrote on 5/12/2003, 3:48 PM
BillyBoy is correct, not currently in Vegas. I was thinking about writing something like that in my copious spare time, but none has arrived yet. It would be nice to animate the colors and vertex locations over time. Maybe we'll make an official project out of it sometime. I also heard that Satish is thinking about a plug-in that might do similar things.
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BillyBoy wrote on 5/12/2003, 4:51 PM
That would be GREAT Dennis. Even something rather "simple" along the lines of Photoshop's magnetic lasso tool where you can quickly outline a shape, then make a layer, mask from it, etc..
filmy wrote on 5/12/2003, 7:38 PM
(The following is said with tounge firmly in cheek)

*GASP*

Do my eyes decieve me - BillyBoy asking SoFo to do something that an Adobe product does?

Tounge out of cheek -

Premiere has the ability to do basic garbage matte - could this be something that could built in to the "crop" function in VV ??

BillyBoy wrote on 5/12/2003, 8:22 PM
LOL! Sure. It depends on which "P" thing we're talking about. Photoshop is still king for still image work.
[r]Evolution wrote on 5/12/2003, 10:45 PM
Could you make a mask in PhotoShop and import it into VEGAS. Would you have to use Alpha Layers and such... but do you think it would work? Maybe even treat it like GREEN SCREENING?

Lamont
BillyBoy wrote on 5/12/2003, 11:03 PM
Yes, you can do that and drop the Photoshop file on the timeline. That's fine for a static object or even one that doesn't change much. See my tutorial

for an example http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7Ewvg/tutorial-menu.htm and the actual video here:

http://www.vegasusers.com/vidshare/textdisp?billyboy-bird-mask-3d.txt

Just tired the 'search' feature, nice Kelly. :-)