You have limited masking abilities in Movie Studio, but I think you can still accomplish this. Here's what I'd suggest, but others might have different solutions.

The basic concept here is that you will "cut out a hole" in the video where the picture frame is, and then put the same video on the track below, but shifted slightly so that the "hole" in the top video is filled with a blank part of the wall from the bottom video.

First, drag and drop the "Cookie Cutter" effect onto your video. In the Video Event FX window that pops up for that effect, do the following:

1. "Shape": select either rectangle or square, whichever is closer to matching the shape of what you want to get rid of.

2. "Method": select "Cut away section", meaning the square/rectangle shape is going to be a hole in your video that lets the lower track show through.

3. "Feather" -- you'll play with this later.

4. "Border": set this to 0.000. (Very important - you don't want any border at all.)

5. "Repeat X", "Repeat Y" should both be 1.

6. "Size": Adjust this slider to get a big enough size to cover your picture frame. It doesn't have to exactly match the shape of the frame -- it can be slightly bigger.

7. In your preview window, you should see a black square. This is the cutout. Grab the "+" in the middle of the square to reposition it, so that it covers the picture frame.


Next, you are going to place a copy of the original video on the track below, then reposition it so that a section of "empty wall" appears in the cut-out you created.

8. If necessary, create a video track below your original video, then ctrl-drag your original video down to the new track.

9. On the LOWER track, remove the "Cookie Cutter" effect. You'll see your picture frame reappear, because the hole in the upper track is letting you see the picture frame on the lower track.

9. On the LOWER track, use pan-crop to reposition the video so that a section of empty wall now appears in the cut-out made in the upper video.

10. On the UPPER track, open the Cookie Cutter effect and play with the "Feather" setting until you get good results at blending the edges of the cut-out.

You might need to play a bit with the lower track, maybe use pan crop to zoom a bit, etc., to get good results. In some cases, using an Oval or circle shape might be less noticeable.

If you get it adjusted so that you can barely notice it, chances are nobody else will notice it at all.