Masks? correct me if I'm wrong

FayFen wrote on 9/8/2017, 10:35 AM

As I continue to dive bit by bit into VMS, I found that when masking, the shadow and movements are track based and not clip/event based so I wonder....

Look at this snippet from my other NLE (here track 4 cover 1-2-3...)

On that project each clip (event) can holds it own mask+shadow+movements independently of it's neighbors. On each track I can place also transparent PNG object or text as well and manipulate it freely from the other.

Now... How do you replicate such thing in VMS? if each clip/event +mask holds two full tracks , to me it looks as totally waste of resources, make no sense and will take gazillion tracks.

Or indeed I'm missing something fundamentally in VMS.

**One thing that the other NLE is lacking in reference to VMS is I can't freely position the mask in relation to the video, so if I need the left side I need to make a "lefty" mask bmp.

Thank you.

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Marco. wrote on 9/8/2017, 10:43 AM

I'm not quite sure but I think you are correct. Some things in Movie Studio are track based and it then could need one track per process. Though there are enough tracks available it would be easier to have options to do same thing clip based. For now you would need external plug-ins then.
Vegas Pro 15 offers clip based FX for such kind of processes but it's a brand new feature of version 15 there. Before, it had same limitation as Movie Studio.

FayFen wrote on 9/8/2017, 11:24 AM

Thanks Marco, well this indeed can put a hold on my will to buy VMS (let along it price jump in amazon ) .

One thing I can't stand is things that "doesn't make sense" in a program. In VMS so far is it's the clip loop, end freeze and now this basic mask thing which is one of my favorite tool I use.

** Not that my other NLE is free of it's own bucket full of stupid things, but either I tweaked it to make it less smelly, learn to workaround them or curse.

Here a snippet from less than 2 min project (not done by me....) that has ~500 animated images and holds just 19 video tracks