Title PIP

RonR wrote on 4/7/2005, 12:06 PM

I am making up a title sequence which shows a map with a small overlaid image of taken at a location. I want to show the overlay as an oval shape with a soft edge that smoothly blends to nothing. I have been trying to use the cookie cutter but this always has a border which leaves a rectangular hard edge.
TIA for any help.

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Chienworks wrote on 4/7/2005, 12:28 PM

What you are probably seeing are the edges of the map image. You must make sure that the feathering is inside the inset image's borders, or conversely, that the inset image is larger than the outside edge of the feathering.

jetdv wrote on 4/7/2005, 12:28 PM

The cookie cutter should work fine. Just change the shape to Oval, adjust the size and position as needed, make sure the "border" setting is on ZERO, and increase the "Feather" setting as desired.

RonR wrote on 4/8/2005, 3:49 PM

Thank you for your replies but I may not have explained too well what I am trying to do. I am making a video of a journey in which I am showing a map of the total journey as a background for the title page. At each point along the journey I want to show show the map again and have a dot appear at each location which will slowly expand as an ethereal shapeless form, (oval is as near as I could get with V5) to slowly fill the frame, and the action would proceed from there. I have been using Pan & Crop to make the image as small as I can get it. But there seems to be a limit to how small that image can be made as I can only get it down to something like a quarter of the width with P & C. Is there a way to get it down to almost nothing?
Then I am using the Cookie Cutter to give an oval feathered edge to the image. That looks fine as far as the image part is concerned. My problem is I don't want the border which shows the hard rectangular outer edge of the reduced P & C frame.
Is there any way I can get this overlaid, reduced image to just smoothly blend away at the edges to reveal the rest of the map background?

TIA

Chienworks wrote on 4/8/2005, 4:22 PM

As i pointed out in my reply, the edges of the reduced image must extend at least as far as the outer edge of the feathered border. If your oval border goes beyond the edge of the map then there is nothing to blend in those areas.

mfranco wrote on 4/8/2005, 6:20 PM

Hi, use the "Elliptical White to Black" preset of the Color Gradient thing as a mask track for the video that you want to shrink or grow. It blends the edges of the emerging video track into the background and doesn't have the revealed hard edges problem.

Also, as your video shrinks into the scene, lower the composite level of the masking track as it gets to the end of the event. That will help the illusion of the video traveling away from the viewer and you don't to wrestle with vegas as much to achieve your desired effect.

- franco