Basically you use it to cut a piece out of a video on one track and place it in a video on a different track. For example, you could stick someone's head on someone else's body.
If the person moves forward at a reasonably consistent rate of speed, you should only need a starting position and ending position keyframe. But, yes, you will probably need several keyframes (just not one for EVERY frame)
First disable the bottom clip (Right click > Switches > Disable).
This is just a temporary measure which makes the "hole" show as black, and therefore is much easier to see where it is.
Open the Cookie cutter on the top clip and click Sync Cursor.
Establish the initial "hole" shape, size and position.
Click ahead say 2 sec and see if the hole is still in an ok position. If it is, do nothing, if it isn't, move it to where you want it. A Keyframe will automatically be created.
Check halfway between this new keyframe and the first. to make sure that the intermediate position is also ok. If not, adjust.
Repeat this procedure for every 2, maybe 5 seconds - depends on how much movement you are dealing with.
When you've finished, play the clip and make sure the black hole is where you want it throughout. If not, stop and adjust
It would be great if SOFO created roto-splines or bezier splines for use as a cookie cutter! It is the only thing lacking in Vegas for compositing / keying and SFX work
AZEdit:
TOTALLY with you there!!!!!!!
We've been craving here for a Rotoscopy application that would allow that, among other possibilities (like creating precise masks).
Satish is currently working on such an app. Hopefully, it will lead to something one of these days... :)
futZ,
It would be great to have the capability! I really miss roto splines when creating precise mattes and traveling mattes! Satish has been doing some great thing for Vegas Users- Thanks for your hard work and efforts!!! Maybe we can take up a collection to get Satish-splines!!! :)
I Just bought photo shop elements because I thought you could do rotoscopy But you need adobe premier film strip to do this I REALLY should be more aware !! Satish this plugin is the final frontier to complete vegas in my opinion I have been checking your website Im really looking forward to this THIS TRULY brilliant idea