Need help with masking in PD 16

Mouhamad

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Apr 28, 2018 01:55

I have a two second clip and I took screen shots of the frames. I made the masks in Photoshop and want to match them with the video. However when I put the video in the mask editor I can only add one mask, every other mask I add overwrites the one before. I want the masks to match each frame. How do I do that?

ynotfish

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Apr 28, 2018 03:58

Hi Mouhamad -

That's right. Applying a mask to a video applies it to the whole video.

You've already done the hard work... if you drop all your screenshots in the timeline and set them to 00:00:00:01 duration, then apply the matching masks to each frame, (then pop in whatever it was you wanted to replace those spaces with) you should be able to produce your 2 second clip.

Cheers - Tony
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Mouhamad

Senior Member Joined: Feb 02, 2018 17:13 Messages: 161 Offline

Apr 28, 2018 05:47

Quote Hi Mouhamad -

That's right. Applying a mask to a video applies it to the whole video.

You've already done the hard work... if you drop all your screenshots in the timeline and set them to 00:00:00:01 duration, then apply the matching masks to each frame, (then pop in whatever it was you wanted to replace those spaces with) you should be able to produce your 2 second clip.

Cheers - Tony

Thanks Tony, that's what I did and the masking clip turned out pretty ok. I think I should try colordirector so I can have more control over the masking.