• VEGAS Pro

  masking, I think

  Posted by Richard Grossman on January 31, 2009 at 4:02 pm

  I’m pretty new at Vegas and this is my first post. My question is this: Is there a way to have it appear that I’m singing from inside of a cardboard (or whatever) box shaped like a state without having to construct a huge cardboard box, in the color blue, shaped like a state? In other words, shoot a video of my face lip syncing, and then have it look like my face singing a song from the inside of a box shaped like a state, or various states? I hope I’m making this clear. It’s for a song called I Live In A Blue State, so it might be funny to have me singing from, literally, inside a blue state. I have a feeling it’s doable and with some expert help, maybe I can figure it out? Thanks.

  Richard

  Richard Grossman replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  Theo Van laar

  January 31, 2009 at 6:50 pm

  There are many tutorials for that on you tube:

  https://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=sony+vegas+keying+tutorial&meta=

  Theo
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  Richard Grossman

  January 31, 2009 at 8:15 pm

  Thanks. I know there are tutorials, and I know I need to spend some serious time on those, but can I ask just a few preliminary things first?
  1. Do I need a physical green screen or fabric, etc. or the green screen setting in video effects? Are they the same thing? Dumb question probably.
  2. Do you have any ideas on where I’d go to get the state shapes?
  Create them somehow myself? From maps?
  3. Any idea how I’d get it to look like the state is actually a blue box with a square to serve as a window in it, where my face would be? Somehow to have it looking three dimensional, so it’s not just a flat blue screen with a square window in it, but something that at least gives the illusion that it’s a box with a top and sides, but shaped like a state from the front, with a square window in it for my face. That’s what I’m going for.

  I can figure out the Vegas-related stuff, I would hope, from the tutorials, I just don’t understand how to create the map/state/box effect, so that’s what I’m hoping for some help on. Thanks.
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  Richard Grossman

  January 31, 2009 at 8:22 pm

  Oh, one more question, if you don’t mind.
  I guess this would mean that the box would need to not only be in the background, but also in the front, if it’s gonna look like I’m INSIDE the box. Maybe this is impossible, I dunno. Thanks.
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  Theo Van laar

  January 31, 2009 at 9:33 pm

  Tp put yourself inside of the box, you can use layers and masks, just as you would do in photoshop.

  Theo
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  Richard Grossman

  January 31, 2009 at 9:38 pm

  Thanks, Theo. Oh boy, one more thing I don’t know the first thing about 🙂

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