Window in video

YNLExposure

Member Location: Nevada Joined: Sep 25, 2011 18:14 Messages: 65 Offline

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May 24, 2013 19:14

I am trying to cut a hole in the video (window on a wall) so that I can put another image or video behind it that could be viewed through this hole (through the window on the wall).

I see where I can mask a video from the outside edges but I see no tool allowing me to cut a shape out of the center portion of a video. Could be square, rectangle, circle or whatever you need.

Am I missing it or do I have to mask the distant object to be viewed as if through the window?

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 25, 2013 09:22

You might look on the Director Zone.
There are several PIPs that are a TV That show a object in a frame.

http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/search-action.do?searchType=creation&keyword=TV&x=0&y=0#ALL_-1_score_0_ALL_WORLDWIDE_thumb_1

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YNLExposure

Member Location: Nevada Joined: Sep 25, 2011 18:14 Messages: 65 Offline

May 25, 2013 12:17

Thanks Carl. I was hoping for a hole in 'my' video. Maybe the TVs listed started as stills with a deleted transparent center (screen).

Kind of surprising PD doesn't have a tool built in for various center deletions (holes). The masks are great and I use them too. I'll have to use the masks to right-size the view out the window. Not as neat but doable.

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

May 25, 2013 13:46

Hi YNLExposure -

PD doesn't support an alpha channel, so you can't cut "holes".

What you can do is overlay videos & images... that's when masks & frames come in handy.

Is that the kind of thing you're trying to do?

Cheers - Tony


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YNLExposure

Member Location: Nevada Joined: Sep 25, 2011 18:14 Messages: 65 Offline

May 25, 2013 16:38

Thanks Tony. What I'm trying to do now is take a video that contains a window on a wall behind a subject. It's a split pane window, upper and lower. In a perfect world, I would cut out the glass portions of the window and place a second video 'under' my subject video. I could then have anything I want happening through the window.

Instead, I'll have to mask the outside view to fit the glass panes, placing them on top of subject video. PD is amazing for the price and 64 bit and HD. Sometimes we want just one more tool.................

A little looking around found this custom masking procedure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_kJeBK0lY4

Luckily I have CS4 and it was pretty easy to follow youtube instructions.
Here's a before pic of wall and window:

Here's the edited window with a nuke outside...........

I probably could have gotten a tighter cut to window frame by playing around with it but it was for a gag reel so it will do fine.

Thanks for the response/suggestions!

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