• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 5/23/2020

  Masking an effect
  I'm using Movie Edit Pro. My layers are as follows: 1) Video of my son holding a plastic tube. 2) Video of a pulsating lightsaber. What I want to is come up with a way so that when he spins the light saber infront of himself **edit to add** while
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker Hi John. Got it! Tanks Text is Black text white b/g. 2021 is red text with black background. I did say above I made a mistake and I did apply an an alpha mask. I posted a further image with it showing in my last comment. I have a down
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  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . not using an alpha mask. . . . . The titling is looking much clearer - if you did not use and black/white mask image for 'TANKS' and apply Chromakey Alpha to it, what did you use? . . . . I am looking for signs of that up
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  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker Hi John. My new version only needing only the one edit but not using an alpha mask. I am looking for signs of that up arrow and changing to an alpha mask. Ray.   [Edit] Apparently I was wrong. I am using an alpha mask but still not
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker Hi John. Well, this is odd. I have the same track number count and effects Mask type (Except for the font bevelling) and it works, but I still can't use the alpha channel. Perhaps because my date lettering is red instead of white? The
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  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker Hi John. Blast my colour vision, I can hardly make out the text on the objects. I get tracks 1,3, and 4. What are tracks two and five? I did try the alpha mask but clearly not like this setup. I could not get alpha to work cleanly. So
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  Hi Ray This is the timeline Annotated: As you can see it appears to be upside down in that the background is on the highest track number - it does not work the other way round in what would be classed as normal ie background on track 1. All the
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker That's a really good effort John and obviously took you much less time than I spent on mine. You missed some masking on the s and e but I love the way the letters look. Like mirrored glass, and much crisper than mine. If you managed to
• Movie Studio

  66 answers, most recent on 7/2/2020

  RE: How can i make Movie edit pro plus work faster?
  Hi, the png text with transparent background was a bad example, if i use a jpg pic, i can't drag it far enough without the edge showing, the resolution is 1080 x 1920 wide, if i drag the picture to to the right, off screen, 1921 from the left it
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  This is for all the heavy users and more technically minded or those who have attempted similar. I finally finished my 'Tanks' at the War and Peace Revival Opening sequence more or less as I wanted it. My problem was the seeming need to have at
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  66 answers, most recent on 7/2/2020

  RE: How can i make Movie edit pro plus work faster?
  Hi Ray, No prob n Thanks yes i have it as you mention, NVIDIA is in Studio driver & graphics settings is set to classic app in Power Saving Mode 👍 It doesn't matter how far i zoom out of the preview frame, it's when the image leaves the edge,
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 5/15/2020

  RE: A 'How To' request
  @Scenestealer @johnebaker @terrypin As requested by John EB. Any addition effect added to the mask was to try to get rid of problem that only alleviated it slightly. The text is on Track 7. Other blank looking tracks are edge masks as the text mask
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 5/15/2020

  RE: A 'How To' request
  @CubeAce Well I was definitely suffering on playback and export. Maybe because of my Nvidia card difference? Doing it my and @terrypin 's way it looks perfect in HD and 4K - in what monitor resolution and player are you viewing it in? Do you have
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 5/15/2020

  RE: A 'How To' request
  @Scenestealer Hi Peter. I understand the principles well enough. I may be new to video but not to processing graphics. 😁 I just didn't see any jaggies until after I made the mask and added the chroma key. No chroma key, no jaggies. As for sizing,
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/20/2020

  RE: Title examples
  Hi Terry, Here is the link to the Boris+ thread. MAGIX ‘digital assistant’ - you mean that help thing at the lower right of this forum? It doesn't know the meaning of life. It does know that the next version of Video Pro X was released in
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  19 answers, most recent on 5/15/2020

  RE: A 'How To' request
  @terrypin Simple for you maybe Terry 😆. Yes, but with a bit of an edge to it, or as in your example it tends to bleed into the background when you have two colours the same. Also your S and A have changed shape with the S curves meeting the central
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  19 answers, most recent on 5/15/2020

  RE: A 'How To' request
  @johnebaker Hi John. Thank you for the reply. I didn't even think about whether it was a MEP font or not. I used the text box rather than MEPs offerings. It must be a Windows Text. It's called Autumn and yes its a bit jaggy to start with and I've
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  28 answers, most recent on 5/7/2020

  RE: How to load saved 'video effects / facial bluring' onto a new video??
  @browj2 Hi John Very true - and definitely the way to go for multiple masks. John EB  
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  28 answers, most recent on 5/7/2020

  RE: How to load saved 'video effects / facial bluring' onto a new video??
  @johnebaker Hi John EB, Yes, it is slightly longer to set up but permits the use of more than one mask and it allows one to simply copy the mask object from one movie and paste to the other bringing along its effects; no need to load the mask in the
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/7/2020

  RE: How to load saved 'video effects / facial bluring' onto a new video??
  @browj2 Hi John . . . . the other way to apply masks that is simpler. . . . folder called Layer Masks . . . Linking the 2 together I presume you mean adding the layer mask from that folder? That does make the need for ungrouping the mask from the
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/7/2020

  RE: How to load saved 'video effects / facial bluring' onto a new video??
  @Apollo89x @johnebaker Just saw John EB's video and that is more elegant and simpler than the description that I gave. I have to stop for the day. I'll show the other way to apply masks that is simpler, unless John EB gets there first. Under
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/7/2020

  RE: How to load saved 'video effects / facial bluring' onto a new video??
  @Apollo89x Hi Thanks for the method detail - as I said above 'You must copy and paste the effect on like for like The effect you should be copying is off the 'Cropped circle' object however depending on how you created this the method may
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/7/2020

  RE: How to load saved 'video effects / facial bluring' onto a new video??
  @Apollo89x I'm working on a video showing the steps. Some quick comments. You used the command to have the mask automatically follow the picture. This does not work well unless there is a lot of contrast between the object in the rectangle and the
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/7/2020

  RE: How to load saved 'video effects / facial bluring' onto a new video??
  To blur faces I simply cut the segment of footage I want, go to distortion, set Sand to 100%, add effects mask, resize the mask over the face, click attach to image, and it tracks/processes for a few minutes following the face.(That feature works