Soft-edge crop (?)

[Frederic Baumann]

Hi,

I am not sure to understand what you exactly mean by “patch in its own background”. Could you please give more details.

Maybe one way would be to have 2 tracks, one being the duplicate of the other. Then you would pan the top-level track, leaving the other appear in the “hole”. But not sure this is what you want to do.

As you mention tutorials, I have no tutorial about masking, but one about pan/crop. You may follow the link below if you are not too frightened by my frenchy English accent 🙂

Hope this helps,
Frédéric

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Want to learn on Sony Vegas Event Pan/Crop tool? Watch my video tutorial:
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French version: https://geo.creativecow.net/fr/a/12999

[Kelly Griffin]

Frederic–

Yes, that’s exactly what I want to do, however Pan/Crop leaves me with a hard edge, and I need a feathered crop so it doesn’t leave a visible seam.

–Kelly

[Mike Kujbida]

Kelly, please post a screen shot of a problem frame for us to take a look at as there may be other ways to do this.

[Kelly Griffin]

Here’s the image. I’ve shifted it to the left to allow more space for onscreen text, and I just want to copy some of the sky background with a soft seam and patch the area on the right that resulted from shifting the image.

–Kelly

[Jeff Schroeder]

Replicate the footage above and in the pan-crop window make a mask and feather the edge keeping only the part you want. I do this all the time.

Jeff

http://www.narrowroadmedia.com

[Mike Kujbida]

Jeff beat me to it 🙂
Use Pan/Crop on the top layer to slide the image to the right as needed.
Adjust feathering type and percentage as desired.