Removing a Piece of a Video CLip

[Todd Kopriva]

You could draw a matte with the Four-Point Garbage Matte effect.

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[Jon Barrie]

This is some advanced stuff and worthy of a tutorial, but I will endeavor to help by text.

There is always more than one way to skin a cat, so this is one way:
– Make a Sequence just for the Triangluar video.
– Place the video on track 1
– Make a New Title and set the show background video button (top right) to on so you can see the video in the Title Design Area
– Use the Pen tool to shape out the Triangle.
– Make the fill white and uncheck any outter edges or shadows.
– Make a Rectangle that fits the whole area and make it fill to Black.
– Right click the Black Rectangle and “Arrange>send to back”
– Now the white triangle should sit on top of the Black fill BG.
– Add this Title to Track 2 directly on top of Track 1 clip length.

In the Effects Panel type in Track Matte
– Select the effect and drop it onto the video clip in track 1
– Set the Effect Controls settings to see Track 2 as the Matte and you should now have a video only showing through the white triangle area.

Make a new Sequence to composite the final edit with.
– Add the build Sequence for the triangle to Track 3
– Add the Left video to Track 1
– Add the Right video to Track 2

You might want to add crop effect to the clip on Track 2 to compose better. Track 1 clip will be under all the other clips and won’t need a crop, just move it into position.

Edit away…!

– JB

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