On Dienstag 24 Januar 2006 20:11, Nicolas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to hide some part of my video. I read some information about
> masks in the wiki. However, the zone I want to hide moves!
>
> Is that possible to modify in time a mask on the same track, or do I
> have to create several tracks and define for each of that track a static
> mask?

Yes, you can have masks, you can even have eight of them per track. It works 
quite well if you know about its quirks:

- You switch on and off a mask only for the entire track, not parts of it.

- You can have only one number of points (per mask) for the entire track. I.e. 
you can't add a point, because you need one more, and later on the track 
remove it again.

This leads to the following workflow:

- Put each part of the video, for which you need a distinguished mask on a 
separate track.

- Turn on "Generate Keyframes while twee(a)king". Turn on Mask keyframes (View 
menu), 

- Make heavy use of the bezier feature.

- Get used to using Ctrl and Shift keys while tweaking the mask points.

- Start at the frame where you are going to need the most mask points. work 
forward and backward from there.

- Work with deinterlaced footage.

I've done a 10+ seconds shot where I had to tweak the mask at every single 
frame. Since I grabbed it from DV, I used Fields-to-Frames to "deinterlace" 
the frames, so I have actually 50/sec frames. I think I know what I'm talking 
about as far as mask are concerned ;)

-- Hannes

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