Key/Mask Procedure Needed

TimTyler wrote on 7/11/2005, 2:57 PM

Hoping someone can help me get a grip on this.

I have a ten second mostly-static head and shoulders shot of a guy on a slightly-gradient solid black background.

I want to slowly fade in a second shot (of a road) 'behind' the guy in the black areas, and then fade the guy out so that 'road' shot is all that remains.

What combination of masks and keying do I need to use to accomplish this?

I can pull a key of the black background that I'm comfortable with. It bleeds into the shadows on the guys face a bit, but I'm OK with that.

I've never used masks in Vegas before.

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 7/11/2005, 3:13 PM

This "tutorial" may give you some ideas. There are better tutorials, however, at various Vegas-related sites. Hopefully someone else will give you links to those. Here's the "cat" tutorial. Pretty clever stuff. If you can master this, you'll be able to create magic with Vegas.

Cat Demo

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 7/11/2005, 7:20 PM

You could do a bezier mask.

The pan crop in the middle right side of the end of your clip.
then check the mask box on the bottom of the P/C window that shows up.

it would require some messing to keep it moving just a bit with the head, but it would accomplish what you're looking to do.

In this case I'd take and duplicate the head shot on 2 tracks.
Use the first for the masked shot (just his head and shoulders)
Then just fade out the bg on the 2nd track (below it) as is needed.
and then fade out that track so that all that's left is the road clip (on the third track below it).

Dave