Hi Ray

Rotoscoping cannot be done in PD - however there are various effects in the effects room (F4) coupled with the subject being shot on a green screen - might be of use.

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Thanks for the response. I just watched a short tutorial on rotoscoping with Vegas Pro.
It's a rather tedious process but definitely can be done.

If it wasn't so expensive, I'd give it a shot!

You would think Cyberlink would be adding frame level type tools....

Use the Color Painting, Pencil Sketch effect etc in Effects Room to produce an effect.

Then adjust the result by tweaking contrast, hue, brightness. Save, Re-do on the new clip as needed.

Find other rotoscopes in YouTube and also google search for rotoscope animation forums

Seeing these examples you can now try other particle effects on top of the pencil sketch effect until you get a better result. Remember, what you get will be viewed by your audience without any knowledge usually, of these techniques so if they recognise the players in your movie they will be just as pleased with the result as long as the content is suitable.

e.g. you would not normally rotoscope a wedding or a funeral - or would you ?....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pad3aLEtM0





If you can't solve the problem - Change the problem

Quote: Remember, what you get will be viewed by your audience without any knowledge usually, of these techniques ...

I remember being told that video is all about cheating. Jerry Schwartz

Quote: Use the Color Painting, Pencil Sketch effect etc in Effects Room to produce an effect.

Then adjust the result by tweaking contrast, hue, brightness. Save, Re-do on the new clip as needed.

Find other rotoscopes in YouTube and also google search for rotoscope animation forums

Seeing these examples you can now try other particle effects on top of the pencil sketch effect until you get a better result. Remember, what you get will be viewed by your audience without any knowledge usually, of these techniques so if they recognise the players in your movie they will be just as pleased with the result as long as the content is suitable.

e.g. you would not normally rotoscope a wedding or a funeral - or would you ?....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pad3aLEtM0

Your video is a rotoscope of the entire frame! I would just want to rotoscope you for example and leave
the background untouched.

Ravj,

Not entirely, but straight answer is yes, to be quick-n-easy I did not take it further. Its quite difficult to only rotoscope sections without doing a matte (see below) The better more expensive editors on the market have smart plug-ins I believe, to allow more control.

I took a video shot against a blue background and I then did a Color Painting effect and a Pencil Sketch effect on the timeline. This created a ratty-haired and increased folds-in-clothing image of me talking. I then produced the movie and re-processed the result a second time for brightness and hue and I think I did the color painting effect again on the second movie.

Then I moved it to timeline 2 and put a static image on timeline 1 of a valley - the default library image in PD9. I did a chroma-key of white so the background valley came through, but unfortunately my white beard and left face also got unwanted bleed-thru. Finally I placed the green text where you see it.

I have seen an excellent rotoscope on YouTube somehwere where the players in the movie, a young girl and her father are holding a hand mirror. I assume the mirror was the green screen item and they passed the mirror back and forth between them, covering their faces . In doing so the video-maker did a color rotoscope of the original faces in bizzare colors but only the mirror portion was visible, everything else was normal. The result was remarkable.

In making the hand-mirror be a matte, the artist confined his bleed-thru to just the mirror. If for example you were to cover a guitar body with green paper or wore green clothing you could do a similar movie.

See here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQk-HDW4diU

for my matte of a castle

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