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  help with editing a muzzle flash in studio 9 platinum!!!

  Posted by Almuatasim Owda on January 24, 2009 at 6:53 am

  hello am new to sony vegas , i have studio 9 platinum , my question is : if i wanna add a muzzle flash with black background, first how to remove the background and leave the muzzle flash ? second how can i erase PARTS of the muzzle flash itself , so i can match it to some guns?

  thanks.

  John Rofrano replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Rofrano

  January 24, 2009 at 6:16 pm

  Since the muzzle flash is black and white you could add a Sony Mask Generator FX to the event and the Luminance setting will key out the black leaving only the white muzzle flash.

  As for erasing parts of the flash, that will be very difficult in Movie Studio because I don’t believe it has the Mask capability in Pan/Crop that Vegas Pro has. Normally I would go into Pan/Crop and use the Mask tool for this. You really need a tool that has masking capabilities. Without it, you would have to manually create a black and white mask in a tool like Photoshop and then keyframe the movement of the mask to match the subjects movement. Then composite that wil the original footage.

  ~jr

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