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Solid color layering not working.
Hi, I’m trying to create a light up effect from a gunshot. First I found the place where the gunshot light effect was needed, dropped a solid color orange above the main video in the place, and masked it with the appropriate surroundings and I added a ‘dodge’ effect to the track so that it would make it look like it was lighting up. Then I dropped a yellow solid color on a track above the orange solid, and masked a circle in it and added a ‘subtract’ to the track and a ‘Sony Invert 100%’ as well. It was meant to make it so the orange could only appear in that circle, but it didn’t..
Instead only the yellow circle covered up the orange.
How would I make the orange appear only in the yellow circle?
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4 Replies
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I believe I have replicated your treatment. However I can’t understand just what it is you are trying to achieve. What I will confirm is that Vegas is doing exactly what you are telling it to do, but that is little reassurance for your present predicament.
Could you say what it is you want in a different way, or better yet, provide a sample of what you ARE trying to achieve? Maybe somebody else here has an idea of what it is you are wishing to accomplish?
I’m trying . . honest!
Grazie
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When you put a video track with video over another video track with video, it overrides it, allowing the track at the top to go over the one at the bottom.
Basically I want to make it so that where ever the top track is, the bottom track can only show.
Example:
The top trap has a masked circle.
The bottom track has a solid color.
I want to be able so that wherever I move that circle, it is where the the solid color shows.
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Ok Try This – I think this will give you what you want ?!?
On Video Track 2 – Put a solid color (say Yellow)
On Video Track 1 – Put a BLACK solid – then apply the CIRCLE cookie cutter FX to this track – adjust size of circle appropriately.
Now make VIDEO TRACK 2 the CHILD of track 1
Both TRACK 1 and TRACK 2 should have their COMPOSITE modes as SOURCE ALPHA
Put the PARENT COMPOSITE mode as DODGE
Now put the MOVIE you want under this on Track 3.
You can now “move” the circle by adjusting the X and Y poistions on the Cookie Cutter FX on track 1….
Does that do what you want?!?
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Very close, thank you, but I want it to only affect the orange color and not the main video track itself.
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