Sorry if there is allready a post on this dident take to the time to search :( . I bought Vegas Movie Studio 8 a week ago and just want to know if this version has the "Masking Tool" I cant seem to find it any where. I also cant find some other effects like muzzle flash. Do you guys know why?
Vegas Pro offers more plugins and effects, yes.
There are plenty of 3rd party plugins that are sold over the internet. Some are rather expensive.
here are some sites: http://www.redgiant.com for Magic Bullet http://www.digitaljuice.com for mattes, transitions and backgrounds
If you are new to Vegas, I would suggest you first get to know the program, because you can pull out quite a nice arsenal of nice effects out of Vegas Movie Studio, just by being creative!
If you dont mind my asking, what are you trying to mask?
There are lots of ways to "mask" things depending on what you want to do. A quick example of this is the border function in the video fx tab. It is a "type" of mask. So is cookie cutter. You can introduce a png drawing/overlay with a transparent background and use it as a mask. You can use a spicemaster transition over some generated media to get a muzzle effect flash effect I think - which you could then composite wherever you wanted. Some people use green screens to mask out a subject they then can put the subject wherever they want. I guess what I am saying is masking is more of a subject that an "item".
I wish you the best in finding what you are looking for and in your video projects. Have fun with it.