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  • Making masks bigger/smaller

    Posted by Paulina Nowak on June 22, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    Hello.
    I have the question. If I want to mask one character which doesn’t change their pose, just getting bigger or smaller is there an option I make one mask and zoom it? So I didn’t have to make lots of unnecesseary ones?
    I’m using Sony Vegas 7.0
    Thanks!

    John Rofrano replied 17 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • John Rofrano

    June 23, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    Create the mask on a separate track and use Pan/Crop or Track Motion to resize it accordingly. The easiest way to accomplish this would be to use the Mask tool in Pan/Crop to make the original mask over the event with the character. Then save that as a preset and remove it from the event. Now create a new event out of Solid White Generated Media on a new track above and apply the mask shape to that event. You may have to change the mask type to negative because I assume you want to create a hole. Then change the compositing mode of the upper (mask) track to Multiply (Mask). This should create a mask that you can now resize.

    ~jr

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