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Add a footage, background problem
Hello guys, yesterday I made a video with sony vegas, I simulated a pistol shooting, I recorder a video where I had in my hand a realistic pistol and I pulled the trigger, then I add on the video a one-frame of muzzle flash picture and was done, the fact is that when I add picture with black background everything is ok because the background don’t appear, but when I try to do the same with a footage something go wrong, infact also the background appear, but not black, it become a trasparent white, very disturbing.
Here is an example, I took two pictures of my videos, I downloaded a footage of a spark with black backgound, how you can say in the second pictures when I add the footage the background appear but not black, it become a trasparent white, I don’t have any problem when I add pictures with black background, in this case the background don’t appear at all, but with the footage I have this problem, you can help me ? Thanks…
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What makes you think that a black background should be transparent? What you need is a alpha mask. You can create one with the Mask Generator effect. Drop it on a copy of your clip that’s above the original and tune it to make the black really transparent. It will create a black and white mask that you can use to composite your video in Mask mode.
~jr
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You can add some contrast to that Transparent white and tweak until its ok.
Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
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Thanks guys, when the background is black, the two advices you said work both,
it could work also if the background will be green ? -
“it could work also if the background will be green ?”
NO, Green is dealt with differently, by simply Chroma Keying.
Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
Film Maker & VFX Artist.
Owner of Filmex Creative Media.
Samples of my Work and Company can be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia -
Yea, once you involved color, you want to use the Chroma Key. For black and white you would use a Luma Key (which is what the Mask Generator is creating).
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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