Quick 2 questions bout this effect

[Ninjafox]

picture from Vicbond007's vid, Charcoal sketched dreams

As shown in the red circles, how do i make the edges give it that blur look? i applied gaussian blur but all that did was blur the image but not edges. Also within that grey and white rectangle, do u copy the exact clip above the original one and add "Brightness and contrast" with "gaussian blur" ? i tried it, however i cant get it quite the same.

[Keeper of Hellfire]

I think it's done with the mask. Either there is a very slim clolor graduation at the edges, or the edges are smoothed.

[mikestrife]

If you use a rectangle mask that has a gradiant around the edges, you get this effect. (I use Fireworks or Photoshop to make my masks)

Most image editing programs had a edge feather style or soft line stroke, or something like that that will also create the edged gradiant for you.

[TaranT]

If you still have Vegas Movie Studio, you can use it to make masks like this. Put a white pic on the overlay track and a black pic below it. Drop the cookie cutter effect on the white pic. Lower the size setting and increase the feathering. Don't bother to render the video. Save a still pic to a file and you can use that as a black and white mask in Premiere.