On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:13:19PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote: > 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
That worked. I had to create around 40 tracks just to erase a moving part of the video for 5 secs. Being able to move masks in time, or define the end/start point of masks would be really useful. That would avoid creating dozens of tracks. Thanks. Nicolas. -- -------- Conti ---------------- O -- Kawasaki-Nikon-Linux --- ._ /\_> ------- Powered ----------- (x)> (x) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
