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Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby AznBrotha101 » Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:04 pm

I was wondering how to do masking in Vegas Pro 8. I've got a lot of experience with photoshop and Gimp so I don't think it should be too hard to learn.
And sorry if there's some tutorial out there, cause I didn't find any good ones, but if you could give me a link to one, that'd be great! :D
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby Mastamind » Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:43 pm

Click on the crop sign at the right side of the clip, or right-click on the clip and go to "event pan/crop". Then check the box on the bottom left where it says "mask"... If you're familiar with photoshop, the rest should be easy from there. :up:
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby AznBrotha101 » Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:43 pm

Thanks bro. :D
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby DualShax » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:11 am

Masking with photoshop is better though...if you ask me, u should just mask with photoshop then import them to vegas.
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby noeylani94 » Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:23 pm

@DualShax,

Can't you onlly mask still images in Adobe Photoshop though?

Also, when masking, you must mask every single frame, if you want to mask a moving image, right?

If anyone can direct me toward a tutorial, please do!
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby mirkosp » Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:54 am

Well, in photoshop you do it image by image. In vegas frame by frame. It's the same, but photoshop allows you to easily have more precision.
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby nommay » Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:15 pm

DualShax wrote:Masking with photoshop is better though...if you ask me, u should just mask with photoshop then import them to vegas.


Yeah, this would be ideal. Although if you're just doing a couple of masks in a project, you might be too lazy to open up photoshop :lol:
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby noeylani94 » Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:15 pm

Well, I mean how do you mask a video in Photoshop? :/ sorry im nooby.
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby Emotive » Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:24 pm

noeylani94 wrote:Well, I mean how do you mask a video in Photoshop? :/ sorry im nooby.

A video consists of a number of stills - you extract these stills, import them to photoshop, mask, save and import the results to your editing program.
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby noeylani94 » Mon Jan 04, 2010 5:25 pm

Yes, but how do you extract the still frames? That's my question. Do you have to do it in your editing program frame by frame?
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby Emotive » Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:05 am

Is that seriously the issue? Yes, you do. In Premiere at least, I'm not sure if there's some way to extract a big number of frames at once in Vegas - but extracting them one by one shouldn't take that long nontheless! Unless you're planning to mask a whole huge video, in which case you will need lots of effort no matter what you do.
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Re: Masking with Vegas Pro 8

Postby noeylani94 » Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:49 pm

Well, no. Don't take me wrong, lol. I'm not saying that it's hard or anything, but I don't want to be doing this the long way if there's a short way and end up regretting that I didn't ask the question. Thanks.
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