Probably Easy Effect I'm Having Trouble With

EleventhAkatsuki · Post by **EleventhAkatsuki** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:23 pm

Mine doesn't have the mask option. Could this be because I'm using a trial version?

Rave_Epic · Post by **Rave_Epic** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:53 am

Hmm..to get to Event Pan/Crop, right click the clip you're wanting and it's on the list.

Have you tried that, Akatsuki?

Rave_Epic · Post by **Rave_Epic** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:59 am

Damn no edit button.

Thanks for the tip on how to set the "Mode." I've been wanting to figure that out for awhile now and I guess I never thought to click it.

Kevmaster · Post by **Kevmaster** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:04 am

I heard "sony vegas Movie Studio" doesn't have the same pan/cropping stuff.

YOu might have that Version?

I am not sure if you can actually do maksing with it, someone told me it wasn't possible, someone else told me there is just a different way to do it, but I have no clue since I never really cared about that version of Vegss because it seems a lot more limiting than the normal version-

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:48 am

the "Movie Studio" version does not have the masking option...

you could export the frames you want to mask as an image sequence (this can be done in Virtualdub Mod, but I think that Vegas has that option somewhere, I've just never used it, so I'm not sure if it's there or where to find it. Virtualdub Mod is free though.)

anyways export as an image sequence, and take each image and open them in THE GIMP (free) or Photoshop. Cut out the character using the pen tool (or the lasso if you are too lazy to use the pen tool - not recommended though)... be sure to leave the background transparent save as .png or .gif (not recommended) or .psd (which is what I recommend) then import all the frames back into Vegas, and retime them down to a single frame each.

its a lot longer than using the in-program-masking tool but it works