@FayFen And if you find your border applies itself to the whole image and not your centre image try changing its order in the FX box.

Or use the shadow/glow option of the trackmotion .

What I see from FayFen's screenshot he made a mask composition to apply a separate mask layer to two video layers. In this case the Border FX would not work around the mask (not sure but I think the TrackMotion tweaks neither). It would need something like "Layer Dimensionality" which is available in Vegas Pro only. Something similar could be done in Movie Studio by applying bump mapping as Track FX to the mask layer.

Without having a more precise description about how the mask is made it's hard to tell which process could work to apply a border/shadow.

Thank you,

Frankly Marco I don't know what's I'm doing... I'm experimenting. I have this maske.vf one of you, on the forum, made for me many months ago when I struggle to see how VMS can mask thru a bmp/jpg image. Then I learned that it can be done only on full track based and not by single event base, unlike cookie cutter (which could make sense for option to load there an image).

** I see now that cookie cutter isn't also working OK. I have this 2minute long video, I split it into 3 events and trim them but If I apply cookie cuter to one it show on all. I'm lost.

Vegas border isn't working here as it border the source video but not border the mask.

I'm looking for something like this

As mentioned above - Bump mapping is one possible way to go.

Photoshop has great border effects, and many great free frame packs. For custom framing of any source, I will render a .png image sequence, and write a Photoshop Action (basically a batch macro) to finish the frame job. (Or, you could leave that last bit to your jealous ex).

Believe me, actually writing the Action is only a trip to hell and back the first time (and the second, if you're like me).

I revised using the shadow option of Parent Animation (instead of Track Motion) of this kind of compositing. This is what I get in Movie Studio:

You mean Parent Motion, Marco.

You are right, I mixed the German version.

Thank you Marco. is it possible you zip the vf file for me to look that up?

Thank you

*** I think I found it, but again it work for the full track, so if I need 10 of such masks in my project I'll need more than 30 tracks just to do them, unless I want all with the same "look" and motion...

hmmm, there is good side for that and bad side...

You don't need additional tracks if you want to add additional masks at different times in your timeline. Just feed the given three compositing tracks and use keyframing to individually adjust the look and motion.

Exactly:

You don't need additional tracks if you want to add additional masks at different times in your timeline. Just feed the given three compositing tracks and use keyframing to individually adjust the look and motion.

Marco , 3Point, that's what I understand , all masks/events on this same track will have same glow and shadow. I can't keyframe difrent motion/shadow/glow to difrent clips/events.

3point, you got me confused as I see you have the mask above the video I thought it should be below....

I see this whole process is un-intuative at all. To have one masked video over another masked video, like I show in my screenshot can be a nightmare..

Still thank you for taking the time so show me.