Jamie Carsten
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Great I’ll take a look! Is there a reputable site you recommend?
Thanks for your help everyone. Much appreciated and I’ve learned lots. 🙂
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Ah yes that does make sense. So with the pen tool I draw the mask (any tips on drawing straight with the pen tool? ????). Then stretch the corners to the edge of the image like the below video? This does for the first time allow me to scale the main image without it growing or shrinking within the overall frame size. A positive step! The only thing is the pen tool isn’t totally precise and doing this with 100+ images might lead to slight differences in the amount of pillarboxing. I guess a neccessary evil if there’s no other way. If I want the blurry background effect do I just replace the black with a blurred copy of the image?
now customize each stills size so that each still fills the pillarboxed frame and move the anchor point of each slide to the center of the frame.
nest all of your stills
I got a little confused with these two points. Is the first point about taking that original black masked clip and putting it over all the images with the same aspect ratio? I assume this wouldn’t work though if I wanted each background to be a blurred copy of the main image, similar to the love heart clip in my earlier post?
For the second point, I understand what nesting is from some YouTube vids I just watched. Is the idea of doing this just to create a cleaner workspace? Am I nesting the stills with the black masked clips?
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OK great. One problem is when the black layer is on video track 2, it sits above the image. Thus, I’m not sure the exact area to mask because I can’t see where the image borders are. Am I being dumb?
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Thanks a lot Greg.
It’s time to have a laugh at my expense. See my attempt here. Where are all the places I went wrong? ????
I assume when you said black on layer 2 that means behind the still? So black on track 1 and still on track 2?
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I have created 3 layers below. I get lost when it comes to applying a mask to the black layer though in the same dimensions as the image below. ☹
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Thanks for the fantastically helpful post Greg.
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Now you can scale and blur and do whatever the second track and the footage on the first track will show trough in the shape of the mask you made
Doesn’t the blurry, full screen background have to be the first track? I.e. behind the image I want to zoom into and out of?
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Even 1 minute on 1 clip would be good showing the process. Am I adding the mask to the black video in track 3? I’m not sure how to set it exactly to the size of my image. For example my original image position (and what I want to keep my image to when zooming in and out) is 960 x 540, thus I assume my mask on track 3 needs to be this exactly as well? When doing the mask I can see the ellipse mask, polygon mask and pen mask. Not sure if any of these tools give me the ability to set an exact pixel mask? Thanks
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Wow so I need 3 tracks just to be able to do this? I’m also not following the instructions because I’m a beginner. All the track matte tutorials are things like this (https://www.google.ca/search?q=track+matte+premiere+pro&oq=track+m&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j69i60l2j69i57j69i60.1427j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-80) which I don’t see how it applies to me.
Tero is there any chance of a quick video tutorial of that? I can’t figure that out based on reading that.
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Thanks Dave.
Happy to spend the time masking each image as it’s a special video for me. I’ve done this copying the track below, scaling to full size and adding guassian blur. I assume what I need to do is add this to the top track then add a mask somehow. Would anyone know how to do this? Thanks so much!