zoom and highlight image

curt y

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Aug 17, 2011 11:52

A few months ago I saw a tutorial (captain kevin?) on zooming in on a football player, creating a circle around player, and then darkening the frames except for the player so that he stands out.

I have forgotten how to do this and can not find the tutorial.

Can someone steer me in the right direction?

Thanks.

PlaySound

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Aug 17, 2011 12:12

F4, Focus effect combined with Zoon In, or make Zoon, by Pip designer

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ynotfish

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Aug 17, 2011 12:55

Hi curt y -

Your memory serves you (a little bit) well. It was actually Cranston who made the tutorial & you'll find it on the PDtoots YouTube channel. Cranston & the Cap'n are part of the PDtoots team.

http://www.youtube.com/user/PDtoots#p/u/31/8DsgWu3bMtM

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curt y

Member Joined: Sep 02, 2009 10:22 Messages: 55 Offline

Aug 17, 2011 13:26

Tony,

Thanks for the link. Yes that was the one I was thinking of. A little involved, but doable I think.

Cranston

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Aug 17, 2007 02:26 Messages: 1667 Offline

Aug 17, 2011 14:19

Hi curt y,

The tutorial mentioned, was created in PD8, and is an “option”, of one way to achieve a highlight that is perhaps a bit more interesting, than just highlighting a player with a circle.
But now in PD9, with a whole set of other options available, I would do the highlighting differently. And have been toying with making another tutorial that is PD9 centric, which displays a few different ways that one can accomplish the highlighting of a moving object or person, in the more advanced PD9.

PlayVideo is right. In PD9, using the “Color” Focus effect, in conjunction with Key Frames, is one way to accomplish a highlighting effect.

Also, this may help.
The same technique as shown in the Censor Blur tutorial linked below (where a moving object or person is blurred out using key frames and masks), is the basically the same technique you would use to create a highlight.
The only real difference is that you would use the Color Focus effect, instead of the Blur effect, so that you would have a highlighted moving object or person, instead of a blurred out object or person. Just swap the effects.

http://www.youtube.com/user/PDtoots#p/u/14/CE_pbBhTl1I
Censor Blur tutorial created in PD8 - Full instructions / demonstration.

http://www.youtube.com/user/sparetoob?feature=mhee#p/u/7/JgzRPcNKFgo
Addendum to the Censor Blur tutorial created in PD8 - Demonstrating how to apply the same technique, using PD9’s new slightly different user interface, where key Frames are accessed a little differently than in PD8.

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