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Hello Clark,
It appears that you are attempting to use a Motion Tracking mask. Is that correct?
Unforunately, if that's the case, you'd have some difficulty even if you were a CDR "oldie". CDR does indeed "wander off and grab other areas", especially when there are similar coloured objects passing by.
Could you please post a screenshot of the clip showing the area you're trying to mask?
PIX
Hi PIX,
Yes, I was using Motion Tracking. in CDR 6. I have used it for 3 videos.
But, based on my experience, I will not use it again, unless I am paid very high, or unless someone tells me how better to use it.
Rather than a screen shot, how about a link to a "completed" video, one that I did mask, and then created a video with a semi-transparent background of the initial background? Then you can see better what I was dealing with.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Kk3y39JbVndNEIL83
The final result was "pretty good", not great. But take many hours to complete. I thought I would get better as time went by, but I topped out on my learning curve after an hour or so. From then on, it was boring, click, alt-click. I couldn't get far with the continuous motion tracking tool; I often had to track frame by frame.
This video had stupid people moving in the background. That hurt. But also, even when there was no background movement, CDR keep losing/adding parts. If I kept the same mask, and started again, thinking that I could fine-tune, it was almost like starting over. CDR kept losing parts that had been masked out, so I would have to re-mask them out again.
I also wanted to be able to simply mask out an area, and keep that mask constant unless there was a big change. But there is no tolerance setting. Also, CDR wants to immediately re-mask with jaggies the area that I had just masked smoothly,
I read somewhere that YouTube was finalizing an on-line tool to do this. Hurry up, YouTube !
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