Replacing a background without a greenscreen

kyle-pitts wrote on 12/12/2023, 7:43 AM

Hey All. I'm using Vegas Pro 20 build 411. I had to do some recording with my cell phone due to technical difficulties during an award ceremony. So I had to re-record at a different location with next to no notice and none of the gear that was on site (ie no green screen)

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My question is, is it possible for me to take this background image and put it behind these people to replace that crazy backdrop? They move around a little so I'm not sure if just using masking is appropriate here. I thought about just cropting the sides but even then not 100% sure on how to go about it. I just don't want the video to look too horrible lol.

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gary-rebholz wrote on 12/12/2023, 12:21 PM

@kyle-pitts, hopefully you're using VEGAS Pro 21. If so, take a look at this video to see how to use the new Z-Depth plug-in as a custom compositor. At about the three-minute mark it does exactly what you are trying to do.

 

lan-mLMC wrote on 12/12/2023, 12:22 PM

As an alternative, you can also try Runaway AI Roto. :

kyle-pitts wrote on 12/12/2023, 12:55 PM

@kyle-pitts, hopefully you're using VEGAS Pro 21. If so, take a look at this video to see how to use the new Z-Depth plug-in as a custom compositor. At about the three-minute mark it does exactly what you are trying to do.

 

Nope, I haven't made that move. I use vegase a few times per year and bought it for myself. i was on movie studio 17 for years and then jumped to pro 20 and now it wants me to buy 21 but for me I cannot justify the cost since I upgraded probably only a year ago. But I will look into this.

gary-rebholz wrote on 12/12/2023, 2:17 PM

I haven't made that move

Oops...sorry, I missed that in your original post. In that case, you'll want to investigate something like what @lan-mLMC suggests. You could do it with Bezier Masking, but it would be a very time-consuming frame-by-frame process.