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After some trial and error I’ve managed to achieve a pretty decent result by cutting out a person-shaped bezier mask with a normal track overlaying a copy of the same track with the “light rays” effect added, then keyframing some movement into the person-shaped mask.

I’ll take a look at Jerrys link as well – thanks again for all the help.

Neil

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That sounds pretty good too Mary, great idea. I’ll fiddle around with all the ideas suggested and see which looks best.

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Hi Gary,

The difficulty I have with Bezier masks is in getting them to actually form the shapes I desire – specifically, curves and elliptoids. Making these particular shapes for me just seems very user un-friendly, in fact it’s as if someone set out to design the most difficult way to do it!

The way in which you position the points and then move the lines around just seems very counter-intuative and frustrating – in that moving one point will affect the shape and size of another seemingly (to me) unconnected and unrelated point. Every time I make one adjustment it affects something else that I don’t want it to.
I’ve read Ed’s guide on his newletter on the matter but it didn’t solve all my ineptitudes at using masks.

If anyone has any links to more guides or forum posts about the subject, it would be greatly appreciated.

I’ll sit down tonight and have a proper go at making the shaped-gaussian blur and I’ll report back with my success/failure!

Cheers,

Neil

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Thank you for the link to the newsletter – very informative, answererd all of my questions and more!

Great work.

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Ah that sounds great, just the sort of thing I need.

Cheers!

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Ah cheers for that – so I drop the overlay track directly on top of the other track? Or do you mean just higher up in the track order?

I tried putting it directly on top of the other track, but when I used track motion to resize it, it resized both tracks rather than just the one I wanted.

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Thanks for the replies guys – I’ll try splitting the track and applying the effect to the split portion – also creating a still image for the paused/blur effect sounds good, I will try that too.

Cheers