Glow effect around person, plug-in, mask, etc..

Nostromo wrote on 8/3/2010, 2:16 AM
Searching the web for solutions to create a glow or outline effect - this for professional fencing where I need to highlight a specific movement of a player, not required to highlight their foil. The video would have been shot already so no option to shoot blue screen though I suppose I could create a mask especially if the background is solid and use color picker to select?

Question other then the gimmicks I've seen for light sabre and the like, is there a process with a plug-in effect or other process someone can suggest.

Thanks

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farss wrote on 8/3/2010, 5:18 AM
You can use the cookie cutter to draw basic soft shapes which I've used to highlight players etc in sports. For more complex shapes using a Bezier mask it gets a bit trickier to do this in Vegas.

Draw mask, duplicate event onto another track. One track has positive mask with feather, the other negative, no feather. Put solid color on track below and it will bleed through the difference between the two masks.

Bob.