VMS - Removing Unwanted Items From Scenes

Michaelb_uk wrote on 9/21/2007, 9:19 AM

I'm using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum

I am working on a home film and have a 15 seconds clip which I really would like to keep but it's spoilt by a person standing towards the edge of the frames throughout the clip. Is there a way I can superimpose a static area of the clip such as grass or a tree to blot out the figure spoiling the clip.

Generally, I can get around this by using alternative clips or just by using parts of clips but in this instance I want to keep this particular clip.

I'm a dab hand at removing all kinds of unwanted things from photo stills in Paint Shop Pro, but I've never tried this with video.

If there is no such tool available in Vegas Movie Studio, is there a third party tool available for this.

Many thanks.

Michael

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dogwalker wrote on 9/21/2007, 9:26 AM

I don't know if this'll be satisfactory in your case, but who knows. What if you use "track motion" or "pan and zoom" to move the visible part of your video such that the person isn't visible?

Other than that, I don't know. Depending on your audience (you said it's home?), you could also use chromakey to overlay something there.

For example, my boys like to play World of Warcraft, so I downloaded WoW Model Viewer and bought fraps (which is a great tool, btw) and captured various actions by a blood elf and then used chromakey to put her in a few sections of one of our home movies I'm moving from Hi8 to dvds.

I hope one of those helps. Good luck.

rustier wrote on 9/21/2007, 11:17 AM

there are a multitude of ways to deal with this. You can use the pan as was mentioned, but you will get a bar unless you zoom in. The quickest way for me is to slap a color gradient (some shape) to transparent just above the clip and adjust the color and control points to your liking. If you want to add a tree from paint shop save it as a png (with transparent layer) and place it on the line above and position. You could slap cookie cutter right on top and adjust the control points as you wish. You could drop in a border. If you want to work harder you could put a copy of the video up above and pan it so that just something like trees is showing on the overlap. To get rid of a hard edge you could composite your overlap with a gradient. (Gee that sounds vague - sorry) (If you want to play with compositing try searching the forum with that keyword - lots of info
good luck

Michaelb_uk wrote on 9/24/2007, 1:32 AM

Thanks dogwalker and rustier for your help. It's much appreciated.