How do you create Multiple Bezier-Masks?

aTimekeeper wrote on 6/1/2020, 9:29 PM

I have a video of 100 people or more, But I need to blur out, let's say 30 people?

I have Movie Studio 16. Plat.

I don't touch my Original Track and make 1 DUPE track with FX Bezier Masking & Pixelate. I can only use one Mask per video track. So I make another DUPE Track and realize I can only use one on that track as well....

am I suppose to seriously make 30 Tracks and not able to use Multiple Masks for one track? Please help.

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EricLNZ wrote on 6/1/2020, 10:15 PM

With VMS you can only have one mask in the Bezier Mask FX. With Vegas Pro you can have more but I don't know how many. So yes you need 30 tracks. VMS is after all only a consumer level editor.

If the faces are in a static position you could create your own mask to use, by taking an image and using it in an image editor to create a png mask.

Edit: It appears Vegas Pro can only have five masks but that would reduce the number of tracks down to five.

Marco. wrote on 6/2/2020, 1:27 AM

You can apply the Bézier Mask FX multiple times though I'm not sure it would help in this case.

EricLNZ wrote on 6/2/2020, 3:01 AM

You can apply the Bézier Mask FX multiple times though I'm not sure it would help in this case.

I thought about that but given a BM applies to everything before it in the chain thought it wouldn't work. I'll give it a try and report back.

EricLNZ wrote on 6/2/2020, 3:14 AM

Sadly, no it doesn't work for me. Using six Gaussian Blur FX with each followed by a Bezier Mask I find each BM nullifies all before it in the chain so you end up with just the last one applying.

KenB wrote on 6/2/2020, 6:10 AM

You can repeat the Cookie Cutter FX, but that is only useful if the faces you want to blur are regularly-spaced, and also it doesn't seem possible to vary the spacing between repeats.

Ken.