The Mask function in Platinum 8

Jakevfr wrote on 2/16/2008, 8:20 AM
I recently bought Vegas Studio 8 Platinum to use at home for a video editing class I'm taking in high school. Things were fine until I needed to use a blue screen for a project. I need to mask out the blue screen and yet I can find nothing to mask. Am I missing the function, or did I really waste $120 on worthless video editing software?

Also, here's a question to whoever made the support process: did you mean to make it so difficult to ask a simple question? It's taken me almost a half an hour just to ask the above question. That is just ridiculous.

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rs170a wrote on 2/16/2008, 8:30 AM
Knowing the proper terminology is a big help.
Search the manual and/or help file for "Chroma keyer".

Mike
gpsmikey wrote on 2/16/2008, 9:46 AM
You are also over in the Vegas forum instead of the Vegas Movie Studio. While Vegas and Vegas Movie Studio are closely related,
you will find more Movie Studio related stuff over there -
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowTopics.asp?ForumID=12

Something I should mention since you just recently purchased it -
For adjusting sound levels and things like that the key word you are
looking for is "envelopes" (took me a while to figure that one out).

Hope that helps :-) Good bunch of people in both sections of the
forums.

mikey
Jakevfr wrote on 2/16/2008, 5:47 PM
Thanks Mike, at my school we use masking, so that's why I was looking for that. Chroma Keyer seems to be easier.

Also, thanks mikey, I saw the other forum right after I posted this.

I also apologize for the... agressiveness of my first post. Been a long day and spending a half an hour trying to ask a question really drove me over the edge, so again I must apologize.
rs170a wrote on 2/16/2008, 7:04 PM
Jakevfr, I have no idea what your teacher's background in video production is but it's been called chroma key for at least 30 years.
It's called keying because what you're doing is taking the blue (or green) colour and "keying" it out to be replaced by another image/video source.
Blue (or green) screen is more of a film term but is equally applicable.

Mike