Masking in Sony Vegas Pro

[John Rofrano]

[Kaan Yilmaz] “Now, this did work, but my scene is 3 mins long, and it has 24 frames a second. That would take a whole lot of time to make, since I would have to mask every frame. Is there any quicker way to do this?”

You would need a tool like the Roto Brush in After Effects. There is no way to automate this in Vegas.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Kaan Yilmaz]

Thank you John,

Do you have a link of a tutorial on how to do that? I did find some tutorials, but they are not quite showing what I want to do.

Kaan Yilmaz

[John Rofrano]

[Kaan Yilmaz] “Do you have a link of a tutorial on how to do that? I did find some tutorials, but they are not quite showing what I want to do.”

There are Roto Brush tutorials on the Adobe TV web site:

Rotoscope with RotoBrush in After Effects CS5

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Kaan Yilmaz]

Thanks for all your help John, I got it working, although I have a small problem. When I render it, and open it in Vegas, it still shows a background, but this time black. How should I make that whole background disappear? I read somewhere that the Output Module should be “Lossless with alpha”, but that didn’t work.

Thanks in advance,
Kaan

[John Rofrano]

[Kaan Yilmaz] ” I read somewhere that the Output Module should be “Lossless with alpha”, but that didn’t work.”

That’s exactly what you need to do. The alpha channel carries the transparency. That doesn’t mean that Vegas will see it without some help. If you rendered lossless with alpha, right-click on that event in Vegas, open the Properties and on the Media tab set the Alpha Channel to Straight (Unmatted). That should make it work.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Kaan Yilmaz]

Woah, thanks John, it worked!

Kaan

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome. 🙂

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com