Talking head masking effect

[Kelly Griffin]

Sorry, I’ve looked (and looked) and I just can’t find how to simply move a mask from one place to somewhere else. I just need to roughly follow a slow zoom out on a talking head, and want to grab all my points that form my oval shape and move them.

I know the answer is right under my nose, but how do I do that??

THANKS

–Kelly

[Mike Kujbida]

Make sure you’ve switched to the Normal Edit tool.
Click anywhere on the mask outline to highlight it, right-click and choose “Select All”, place the cursor on any edit point and drag the entire mask to the desired new location.

If there’s a way to make a mask bigger or smaller, I’d sure love to know how.
I’ve done several searches and can’t find a way to do it.

[Kelly Griffin]

Yep… I did figure that out as soon as I sent the post, but (in my mind anyway) ANY masking tool sure seems like it should come with a few basic shapes instead of hand-plotting points.

Hence, your scaling up/down/wide/narrow question, which is mine, too… I just did a five-second “follow” of my on-camera talent that took me about fifty mouse moves that I could do with two keyframes if I could just make a standard oval and animate its size & shape.

Speaking of… how much clout do you moderator folks have with “new” (ha) features?

–Kelly

[Mike Kujbida]

I agree that moving masks is a royal PITA 🙂
John would probably tell us to get Boris Continuum Complete but that’s just not in the budget so we’re stuck doing it the hard way 🙁

“Speaking of… how much clout do you moderator folks have with “new” (ha) features?”

None whatsoever. Maybe if I were a beta tester (which I’m not), I’d have more clout but for now I submit my “wish list” to Sony just like everyone else.

[Kelly Griffin]

Okay, well, these are the kinds of things that completely baffle me; how some features are so robust and sophisticated and powerful, and how other (essential) features can be so primitive and lacking.

Situations like this one makes me think of climbing inside a luscious Ferrari and then finding out it has bicycle handlebars instead of the killer-looking steering wheel I was expecting…

–Kelly

ps: Not meaning to knock Vegas… still happy with it for the most part.

[Mike Kujbida]

Kelly, I asked on other forums if scaling a mask was possible and the answer, as we already suspected, is no.
I’ve sent a product suggestion in to Sony as this is a feature a lot of us would really like to see.

[Kelly Griffin]

Thanks, Mike. In your request, did you happen to ask for basic shapes (that can be manipulated) to be included as well?

–Kelly

[Mike Kujbida]

No Kelly, I did not ask for that.
Please feel free to ask them yourself as the more people that ask for a specific feature, the better our chances are at having it implemented (at least I like to think so).

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