Masking is a great feature...

StormMarc wrote on 10/29/2004, 7:49 PM

I had an interview with a washed out background. I duplcated the clip and then made a simple animated mask around the person being interviewed and then color corrected the background and also added a blur for a depth of field effect. It worked great and is completely unoticable.

It's really nice being able to do all of this without having to go into a special effects program. Great work Sony!

Marc

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 10/29/2004, 8:35 PM

How did you move the mask when the person moved?

Liam_Vegas wrote on 10/29/2004, 9:06 PM

He probably did it by keyframing the mask? Is there another way?

I bet this being an interview there was probably not a lot of movement. It would be cool to see the before/after.

StormMarc wrote on 10/30/2004, 3:54 AM

I keyframed it. There was some movement but not much. I feathered the edge "In" and set the feather at 2. I also applied a temporary color corrector filter on the top mask clip and dropped the gain all the way down so I could see clearly on my TV what was being masked.

Marc