I'd "darken" remainder of video . .so ..

Track 1 - Solid Colour .. .

Track 2 - Video


Apply Cookie Cutter Fx to Track 1. Adjust accordingly. You now have a highlighted section ove3re .. whatever you want.

There will be many many other ways to do this . . Bezier could be a way . . I'd stick with Cookie Cutter ..


Grazie

It worked just fine. I am a real rookie but the few times I've came on here you folks have always bailed me out . Thank you very much for your time.
Gary

Plesh! - Grazie

I like Grazie's idea of darkening the rest of the video slightly.

I used for my track one solid color: RGBA --> 0,0,0,100. Dropping a cookie cutter circle ("cut away section") worked nicely to both highlight the area of attention, and darken the rest.

-Les

Easier way overall is to insert Generated Media/Gradient/Elliptical or Square.
Set the inside area as transparent, set the outside area as black, then reduce opacity of the Generated Media to fit your need.

Brilliant Spot! - . . and if one used a Text generator and then used an "O" one could have the talent poking their head out through a "doughnut" ! - G

I'm always speaking up for using the text generator for non-text purposes and this is one. Grazie, if you want a really thin "o" use a solid round form (a dot blown up or better still, one of the solid black spots :-) you'll find in the font webdings. Set it to full transparency and add outline. Even if you set the thickness to zero it will show up as a very thin line in the colour of your choice. Then (if need be) you can still pull the transparency of the background down a little to further enhance the perception of what's inside the circle. (Sorry about my Tin glish).
Tor

Excellent TorS! . . how about using a peace of paper; cutting with scissors and some creativity and then "scanning-in" all sorts of shapes into Vegas too! Ah, and all those neat & tasteful Christmas projects one COULD do too! How about the WORD shapes? . . . Lots to do . . Grazie

The beauty is to have them in truetype format (ah yes, but with paper bits you can get the torn edges which are very nice sometimes). I collect all kinds of free fonts in the Dingbat tradition. Most free fonts are useless for writing but some are rather good as shapes for doing odd things in Vegas. Webdings (Microsoft) in particular.
Tor