How do I Cover embarrasment??

[maloricsdad]

I am using vegas 5 & dvd architect 2.
I am editing my brother in laws wedding video,
There is a scene where my brother in law does a quick flash (he is wearing a kilt),
I would like to keep the scene in but for the benefit of the young ones ( and his embarrasment) I want to cover the offending parts with a small smiley face or something like that.
I would need to add it to every frame in a slightly different position as he moves about a bit.
I have tried adding a subtitle track but i cant get the subtitles to play without selecting subtitles from the dvd player.
has anyone got any ideas please??
Thanks .............. Maloricsdad

[macleod]

the only thing I could think of would be to do pull out that section of video, reencode it with the smiley face or whatever over the area and then reinsert it into the original.

[Suntan]

If you have the video stream of the smilly face moving where you need it to be then you could look at overlaying it with AVIsynth. Can't help you from there as I have never tried overlaying anything, but I am pretty sure it can be done.

-Suntan

[maloricsdad]

Sorry about my ignorance but how do i add the smiley face in the first place.
I tried adding a picture over the video but it covered the whole picture, all i want to do is cover the offending object.
I cant find anything in the instructions of vegas 5 or dvd architect 2 that covers this.

[yoda313]

Hello,

If its avi you could use virtualdub to add a logo (which in this case would be the smiley face). Check this guide out:


http://neuron2.net/logo.html

If it's mpeg use virtualdubmpeg2 and follow the same procedures (note the mpeg will be changed to a divx file -or whatever compression you choose).

Kevin

[housepig]

Sorry about my ignorance but how do i add the smiley face in the first place.
I tried adding a picture over the video but it covered the whole picture, all i want to do is cover the offending object.

let's say you have two tracks of video - the track with your brother's flash, and the track for your smiley face.

if you put the smiley face on track one, and the flash video on track two (underneath track one), the smiley face will cover the video (track one covers track two).

if the smiley is too big (covers the whole image) you are going to need the Track Motion control - use it to shrink the smiley face down to an appropriate size (once you start shrinking it, you'll see the brother flash track start to appear around the edges).

to get the smiley to follow your bro's privates, you will need to set keyframes with the Track Motion control, and change the positions for each keyframe.

check the manual for Keyframes, Track Motion and Pan/Crop tools & commands, and play around a bit, it should start to make sense.

[BJ_M]

housepig is right and it is not that hard to do in vegas --

i will add that you may need to go to the properties of the smile face and set alpha so only the smile face shows

[overloaded_ide]

Things get so much easier as time goes on.

About 1994 I was cutting and paisting each frame to do that type of stuff on a 486! Cut frame, edit, paist back in. One frame at a time!
Course it was just a hobby for fun, couldn't do anything with the final product anyway, CD burners did not exist.

I'll be looking into this, I'd like to do that again myself, just not by frames!

[rabg]

Hi

have a look at this software its fantastic Edit studio 4

www.puremotion.com really powerfull and can do the effect your

after look at examples on site.


Rab G