removing back ground..& stabilising object….What Software do I need some thing other than vegas ?

[Don Bloom]

For what you want to do you are actually performing 2 seperate operations but thankfully with Vegas you’ll only need 1 additionaal piece of software.

To extract the background I think the thing to do is to use a bezier mask in Vegas and mask it out. This can be a very tedious method but depending on the footage might be the only method. As for stabilizing the camera shake, you can either try to use keyframes in pan and crop or use a program like “video Stabilizer” to smooth out the movement. It reads the clip and actually applies cropping to it to minimize the motion. It is not a plugin to Vegas so first you must render the clip as an AVI bring it into the program, let the program work and then it will render the clip out as another AVI. Save with a different name and you’re good to go. Dependong on how bad the original was will of course determine how good the stabilized piece turns out.

I’m sure there are other ways to accomplish want you want but this is the only way I know of. I’m sure others will chime in with their methods.

Don

[Timothy Duncan]

Vegas 6 ships with BorisFX, a standalone lite version that has an image stabilizer.

td

[Don Donatello]

discreets combustion would work.. it has motion tracker to track an object/person , stabilzer , plus other goodies to help take out or add objects/person ..also after effects would work

[Joseph Dezordi]

Thanks for these interesting suggestions & advise about software ….

Regarding the Bezier mask…how do you actually do it? Do you need to dissect out the moving image frame by frame??? This would be extremely difficult for say , a child running swinging its arms??

[Mike Kujbida]

.. & make the image more stable,

To do that, try this
guide to using Deshaker. All tools in it are free and supposedly it does a decent job of stabilizing footage.

Mike

[Don Bloom]

Yes it would be and you would not only need lots of time to do it but the patience of a saint because of the amount of keyframing. There is no easy way to remove the background in a video piece.
Wish I could help more.

Don

[Don Donatello]

if you have a effects program with motion tracking = it tracks the motion of any object you attach the tracking points =say a person .. between motion tracking and stabilization it will keep the person in one place in frame .. you then use beziers to cut out the person ..because the person is not moving/shaking from camera it is much easier to adjust beziers .. once roto scoped (beziers) them you can then turn off tracker/stabilizer and camera shake/movement will return or you can just leave on the stabilizer or you can take the stabilization data and apply it to the background layer so it has same camera shake as the person layer …