Rotoscope

saywot wrote on 3/24/2005, 11:22 PM
Greetings All !

The local distributor of SPDN software organised a forum here ( Australia ) and was asked about rotoscoping within Vegas 5

He then selected an image in a frame created an object ( you know clicked on the outline ) and then stretched that object, in this instance made a short person taller.

I now have occasion to duplicate this effect but can't find a reference to it in the user manual

So those of you with greater experience ........

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/25/2005, 6:24 AM
If you've got your image masked out using the Bezier mask, which is what he likely used, (was this Mark Harwood?) then you'd use Track Motion to modify the height or width of the image appearing.
If you're in Sydney or Melbourne, I'll be there in July doing Vegas 6 training if you'd like to drop by. Contact Mark or Darrell from New Magic, they'll provide details.
Welcome to the Vegas forum!
saywot wrote on 3/27/2005, 5:53 AM
Douglas Spotted Eagle was the speaker. I'm quite a bit North of Sydney but will contact New Magic for the dates
Spot|DSE wrote on 3/27/2005, 7:01 AM
Saywot, I am the person you saw in Sydney.
If memory serves, I used the image of a little girl at a wedding, and cut her out, placed her in a different background, and then used Track Motion to squeeze her down.
Open pan/crop, click the Mask checkbox in the keyframe dialog. Use the anchor tool to create a mask. I usually use a touch of feathering, you'll see the feathering control in the Masking dialog.
Then, use Track Motion to place your newly cut out image to where it goes, and disable the locked aspect ratio. You'll find those locks at the top of the Track Motion toolbar/dialog. Squeeze your image as short/fat/tall/thin as you'd like it to be.
Make sense?
saywot wrote on 4/2/2005, 8:17 AM
Thank you DSE/Spot

Coincidently I'm sort of doing the reverse for my mother at a wedding, she doesn't like the footage and says that

" it makes her look fat when she patently is not ! "

So I'll add some inches to her height and take some inches off her hips - HOORAY peace in my time !
saywot wrote on 4/4/2005, 5:30 AM
Ok, before the whistle starts for the kick-off, a few questions

1. open pan/crop ?

I know it's somewhere in front of my nose but at this moment I can only see 'nose'


FuTz wrote on 4/4/2005, 6:11 AM
In the clip, on the timeline. Kind of square, just over that fx button, which is like a rectangle with two tiny circles on each side...
saywot wrote on 4/6/2005, 6:29 AM
Muchos Gracias
saywot wrote on 4/6/2005, 6:40 AM
right ! so far so good.

Have gone to pan/crop of the clip, checked the mask box selected the anchor tool and 'drawn a series of dots around the fat chick ( My svelte Mother ).

The preview window shows the selected area .

So here's where I go out on a limb In the mask section of pan/crop using the tool above the anchorer move the dots that make up the selection so that it becomes longer and narrower. Then use thisclip as a mask by making it a 'Parent: then creating another video track with the same source track and make that a 'child then keyframe the movement of the mask so the thin mask is always over the not-so-thin person

How does that sound or is it just plain wrong ?