Creating this

[Josh Meredith]

The part where Xzibit appears multiple times on the same screen could definitely be done with masking. If you click on a video track’s pan/crop button, you will see two timelines on the bottom. Click on the one called “mask”, and then you can draw a mask around anything you want. Play around with it a bit, and you’ll see how it works.

To re-create that specific shot, I’d have the camera locked down on the tripod, and shoot about 10 or 15 seconds with nobody in the frame. Then have the subject stand in each location for about 5 seconds each, and of course have a shot of him walking towards the camera in the center. Part of making it work is composing the shot so that none of the subject’s various locations overlap – and that includes the subject’s shadow.

Then I’d isolate each 5 second clip of the subject standing in one particular place, and draw a mask around the subject in that clip. Then just stack the masked clips on top of the main clip.

I agreed to create a tutorial on masking in Vegas a while ago, and I am working on it, but other projects keep getting in the way. I hope to have it finished soon.

[Tye Bankhead]

Thanks a lot man. That helped a lot

[Tye Bankhead]

One more question. When I was doing it and was masking when he was far away, it made him twice as small as the original footage. How to I prevent that from happening? Thanks

[Josh Meredith]

Masking shouldn’t change the size of anything. Are you sure you’re not adjusting things on the “position” timeline? That would adjust the size. Masking just adjusts what part of the clip remains in view, while making the rest of it transparent.

[Randall Raymond]

That’s a single greenscreen shot or a single frame with the talent extracted in photoshop. Sized and horizontally flipped to make the rest. Those are not multiple takes.

[Josh Meredith]

I don’t know, if you freeze the frame at 00:18, and make it full screen, it appears that it is not the same guy copied & pasted multiple times. His stance is slightly different in each position, and more telling is the fact that his shadow varies in each position.

It could also be done with green screen and/or Photoshop. However it is not only be easier, but more realistic with masking.

[Randall Raymond]

The shadows are painted on to my eye. The most forward on the left side is too long and too harsh a shadow.

[Harold Brown]

It was probably filmed on a sound stage by NASA.

Harold
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[Randall Raymond]

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[Steph St. laurent]

Yep. That was all takes. Why waste your time on greenscreen when you’ve got everything there you need? Multiple shots makes this sucka simple as pie.