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Masked text
In this Vimeo piece at:
https://vimeo.com/50892862
some text disappears behind a persons head.
How is that done?It’s at time frame 01:15 on the vimeo piece.
Very interesting video by the way.I’ve always wondered how they do the graphics in football games that lay on the field and are masked by the players but I’d settle for knowing how the text is done on the Vimeo piece.
Roger
Roger Bansemer
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That bit 01:15 on Vimeo can be done easily with proper masking
and a little patience.Steve Rhoden
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Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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I like seeing what people are trying to do on this forum because it gives me the impetus to try and figure out how I would do it. I layed down a video event on Track 3. On Track 1, I put Generated Media, Sony Text, and set the compositing mode to Multiply Mask. I duplicated the Generated Media, Sony Text from Track 1 to Track 2, and added the Sony Mask Generator FX to event in Track 2, setting the Mask to Alpha mode.
I then went back to Track 1 media, selected Pan/Crop and turned on the Mask checkbox. I then created a mask, turning the Path: Mode from Positive to Negative. This has the effect that the area that I have masked is not visible in the video and gives the illusion that the text is “hidden” behind the video object (me). Using the masking tool, I had to change the mask of the text on each frame (keyframing) to account for my movement in the video. I did this quickly, so if you freeze a frame, you can see that the mask was not perfect, but when watching in normal play, the illusion is made. I’ve attached the short 3 second video test file I created.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Nice work Andrew!
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Thanks for that tutorial. I’ll have to try it step by step as I’m not that familiar with what “multiply mask” actually does.
Thanks again.
RogerRoger Bansemer
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