Is it possible to recreate this effect?

RossTaylor

Newbie Joined: Sep 13, 2017 10:54 Messages: 39 Offline

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Jun 10, 2019 08:48

I've seen this effect quite a lot recently and I would love to recreate it... but I'm not sure how with Powerdirector?

The effect in question can be seen right at the start of this video. The titles and text are all behind the mic stand yet in front of the rest of the stage. Now, I was there when this was filmed and I can assure you that there were no green screens or any magic going on on stage... so, any ideas?

TDK1044

Member Joined: Apr 11, 2019 12:27 Messages: 130 Offline

Jun 10, 2019 09:46

Quote I've seen this effect quite a lot recently and I would love to recreate it... but I'm not sure how with Powerdirector?

The effect in question can be seen right at the start of this video. The titles and text are all behind the mic stand yet in front of the rest of the stage. Now, I was there when this was filmed and I can assure you that there were no green screens or any magic going on on stage... so, any ideas?

I'm sure that there's a way to do this within PD17. I'd reach out to Sharper Turtle and ask him. He has a lot of impressive tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6a0_l0sZGJNO0FXqaCB4KA/featured

RossTaylor

Newbie Joined: Sep 13, 2017 10:54 Messages: 39 Offline

Jun 10, 2019 10:56

Ah, thanks for that. I took a look at his tutorials and something on there reminded me about the mask feature.

I've figured it out now.

Here's a quick test I did. The original shot was the guy looking out over a canal. All I did was put that on track 1 and 3 with the text on track 2. I then used the mask feature to cut out around his head on track 3.

Really quite simple but very effective!