Re: Masking and overlaying

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From: John Kelly (nospam_at_no.spam)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:26:24 GMT

Hi CW,

    That sort of thing is relatively easy in the MovieX range of products
from AIST (Link on my site) Off the top of my head I am not certain if the
free version (from my site again) will do it...the method is easy....you
make a grey scale image where the centre is total black and it feathers out
to white...you use that as a "Mask" for the video you want to do the effect
on...the result is that the centre is perfectly clear but the outside edge
is transparent. You alter the shape of the circle to an oval or something
similar so that you catch the majority of the bride......most paint packages
will let you create something like that. The top of the range MovieDV 6
comes with the tools built in and at US $69 its pretty smoky. (Don't go
buying it until you have had a play with the free version, it requires more
input than movie maker which has just about all decisions made for you)

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

"CW" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:905d01c432ee$6fc5b650$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I suspect that MM2 cannot handle this, but who knows...
> I have some great footage of a friend twirling in the
> breeze in her wedding dress, but with family and other
> accessories in the background. I would like to somehow
> select the bridal figure, a mask around her with a fuzzy
> or fogged edging to her image would be fine, crop out the
> mums and dads, and overlay her onto a more pleasing
> background i.e. perhaps something abstract like clouds or
> leaves or water or similar.
> I tried playing around with long (full clip-length) fade
> transitions but that wasn't good as it just muddied the
> two clips in their entireties.
> Any ways to do any of this, or am I looking for too much
> from good ole freebie MM2?
> Thanks
> CW

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