Sony Vegas Movie Studio: Chroma Key

SunnyEditor wrote on 6/28/2006, 10:34 AM

I'm experimenting with the "Chroma Keyer" effect in Sony Vegas Movie Studio.

I used my JVC camcorder for a video segment in front of green fabric material.

When the video is loaded into the software program, I can filter out all the green. This leaves me with my subject in front of a black background.

Then I insert a photo background into the "Video Overlay" track.

About all I can do is simply fade in and out both the video and the photo, but nothing like what I would expect.

Any help?

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Tim L wrote on 6/28/2006, 2:56 PM
Put your chromakey video on a track *above* the background photo. You can just grab the track header and drag it up or down to change the order.

The highest video track on the stack is seen first. Whatever is transparent (or partially transparent) on that track lets the next lower track show through. Whatever is transparent there then lets the next lower layer show through.

All the video tracks have the same functionality -- the default names just help beginners get started. The "overlay" track is probably named because if you did a picture-in-picture effect, you want to put the small picture on this track, with the full screen picture on the track below. You can rename the tracks to anything you want.

Here is a tutorial on chromakey with Vegas Movie Studio:

I hope this link works

Tim L