[Joe Bee]

oh it seems that unchecking the snapping tool has also stopped that curved option from appearing while masking.

[Joe Bee]

Ah yes! Thank you now that’s much more smooth!

Another thing I just encountered is while I’m in the middle of plotting
down my anchor points, sometimes it will suddenly give me this “curve” line
option but I don’t want it. I’m just tracing the outline dropping nodes
but this curve line option that appears really annoys me because I have to
double click that node to turn off the curved option.

Is there anyway to prevent that curved option from appearing while dropping
anchor nodes? If I want the curve option, I can summon it myself i think.

For example, when I’m doing a straight line from one end to the next, this curved option appears on my node and it ends up curving that straight line into a curve. So annoying!

[Joe Bee]

Thanks for sharing your experience. I didn’t know that about Sony’s. That’s kind of a bummer since I’m usually on auto-focus (when I need to just point and shoot without looking at the LCD or viewfinder).

[Joe Bee]

Thanks! Really helpful response.

Ok, I’ll continue trying the shutter speed adjustments. One other thing. It seems that my camcorder often likes to focus on the background more than the subject directly infront of it. It takes a few seconds sometimes for the auto focus to focus on the subject. Is there a way to adjust settings on focus and make sure my camcorder focuses on the closest or largest subject and not the background? It’s quite annoying. I often have to “tap” the touch screen on the subject to get it to focus because the auto focus for some reason is more inclined to lock onto the background or a subject in the background instead lol.

[Joe Bee]

Thanks so much for the responses.

I’m using a Sony camcorder (PJ760). So, I should try and shoot my video adjusting the aperture so that the main subject is in focus and clear while the background is blurry?

Can this be achieved on auto setting or do I always have to manually adjust the settings while shooting? Sometimes, during live action (motion), it’s difficult to manually maintain focus…If I’m moving around, in and out, I’m constantly having to turn the jog dial to adjust the focus.

[Joe Bee]

Thanks for the reply. So the ones I see on tv where they took actual sports clips and somehow extracted the subject in action putting a different background was done either frame by frame (weeks or months) or they used some sort of technology not available to the average consumer?

[Joe Bee]

Could it be anything to do with 32bit vs 64bit? Is it possible to have codecs or quicktime or anything else installed on the computer but maybe only for x86 program files or 64 bit program files?

Could it have anything to do with a conflict in codecs?
The error message after all does say problem occurred when trying to open a codec (although it doesn’t say which codec, but obviously the codec the video file is in). What is AVC1 codec and then H.264/MPEG 4 ?

[Joe Bee]

Thanks so much! That’s what it is! Phew….

[Joe Bee]

Here is a short video that hopefully shows and helps.

https://tinypic.com/r/fwkf8i/5

[Joe Bee]

Thanks for the reply. Is there anything I can do or show that could help? I can record a video or maybe take more screencaps of whatever it is you need to know about it. I’m just a little surprised how difficult this actually seems to be as nobody has yet seemed to have any answer for this.