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Help with sports recruiting videos
Part of my duties at school is to produce videos for students to send off to college coaches. For the college coach, trying to follow these kids on a soccer field is a bit hard with all of the other players. It there by chance an application that would allow you to tag a player and have the player highlighted in some way around the field. If there is not, do you have any suggestions how I can do this? The videos average about 10-15min in length.
Thanks – Jim
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Since you are on a Sony Vegas board can we assume that you have one of their products? Which one?
Using the cookie cutter fx you can create a shape (oval?) around your player and have him slightly brighter than the rest of the picture. You can animate the oval to follow him with keyframes.
You could use an arrow (one from wing dings would work nicely) to point him out and again animate it with keyframes to follow him around. -
What I have done is record the play in HD with a half-field field of view. This captures all the action for all the players.
Then to produce the highlight reel for a particular player, I’ve used the pan/crop tool to zoom in on a particular player and follow his/her play.
Alas, this is manual and time consuming. Have not thought of a way to automatically do this. However, with practice this becomes pretty fast and easy to do.
Shooting in HD provides the extra resolution to compensate for the zooming in. Actual output is to online video hosting sites like Vimeo and YouTube, and also a DVD. Some coaches want DVD; some are happy with online. IN any case, make sure the action is worth watching rathy that a blurry or macro-block mess. If you can clearly read the numbers, you are probably OK.
Mike
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What I like to do is to add a Generated Media Solid Color Black to the track above. Adjust the Transparency of the black right in the generated media itself until it is the right consistency of gray to just darken the video a bit. Then use the Cookie Cutter on the generated media to punch a hole in it which will reveal the unaltered video below it. I increase the border on the Cookie Cutter and make it thin and yellow (makes it easy to see). You can then use keyframes in the cookie cutter itself to follow the player.
The advantage of this method is that you can just copy the generated media and adjust the keyframes to highlight again later in the video. You can also do this just with Generated Media Color Gradient. By adding 4 colors and making them transparent, yellow, yellow, and semi-transparent black, you can create a yellow circle that is clear on the inside and darkening on the outside to follow the player.
~jr
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Nice expansion of my rather spartan explanation!
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