[Tl Westgate]

Try setting the mode to Screen or Overlay or one that looks good. Maybe tweak the transparency a bit.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

For slowing down, I believe Aharon and Andrew have tutorials on Time Remapping. And there’s a scale parameter for each layer.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Andrew Kramer has a tutorial that sort of addresses what you want to do.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/timeFreezeCow.php

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

One of those attributes is Mask Expansion. Maybe try keyframing that.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Sounds easy enough. Just corner pin the video to a frame.

I guessing there must be more to this, though.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Maybe Andrew Kramer’s “Frame Rate Converter” can help you?

https://www.videocopilot.net/presets.html?id=100

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

He also has a zoom into the human body tutorial.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Camtasia is the king and I highly recommend it. However, if money is tight, try the free open-source CamStudio:

https://camstudio.org/

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Thanks for all the pointers!

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Hmmm, well, I was going thru old tutorials today (really slow at work) and tried this one:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/tunnel.php

It uses the “Reshape” effect which requires 3 masks on the layer. I don’t think they can be split up.

— TL