Sony Vegas 8 Puzzle Effect Masking Tutorial
Sony Vegas 8 Puzzle Effect Tutorial
This is a really cool effect and really isn’t that hard to do. Basically it involves a bit of masking and some other small tweaks in vegas. The outcome tends to be pretty cool.
1. First you are going to need to open up any version of vegas preferably 6+. You now need to import the clip you are going to be applying the effect to. You can do this by going to file > import > media. Drag that clip onto your timeline and position it at the beginning of your timeline.
2. When your clip is safely on the timeline, click at the beginning of your clip and by holding shift use your right arrow key to highlight 1 frame. This will be your starting point. With that frame selected go to tools > scripting > render image sequence. What we are basically doing is making a screenshot of your first frame, so that we can use it for the masking later on. Change the steptime at the bottom from xxxxx.01 to xxxxx.10, so change the last two numbers from 01 to 10 and save the image somewhere familiar.
3. Import that generated image again into your project and place it ABOVE your video clip.. Right click on the video track that has your image and click on ‘duplicate track’ do this about 4-6 more times. Make sure that your video clip image is below all the generated image clips and after them in the timeline.
4. Okay, here is where the fun begins, the masking. Select the top image clip, right click > video event pan crop. Now click on the little mask checkbox as opposed to the position one. Using the pen tool, draw/cut a small segment of your image, for example the obstacle, or parts of the ground, or building, or trees whatever.
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You have to do this for every video image track that you created, each time masking different parts of the image.
If you want to make it more detailed, duplicate more video tracks and cut off little segments from each one. After you have made the maks for all the images it is time to animate the flying in effect. Select the top image, right click > video event pan crop but instead of going to the mask section go to position and make the image start off the screen, you can do this by clicking inside the window and dragging out. Then use your mouse or arrow keys and scroll forward a second or two and right click on the window > restore. This will bring the image back to its original place. Hence, creating the flying in animation.
This needs to be done for each of the video track images you duplicated.
5. After you have masked all your tracks and created all the ‘position’ animations you are pretty much finished, you can add more detail to it buy making more masks and creating more images and playing around with it, but i’ll leave that up to you. To finish it off, you should cut down any unescessary parts of the images that you don’t need and place your actual video clip right at the point where the masking animation finishes, so that as soon as the puzzle joins up the video will start. After that just go to file > render as to render your clip.
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