Vegas 7.0 shape masking

SupaOrginalMan021 · Post by **SupaOrginalMan021** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:04 pm

I've been having trouble with this for a while now and I just wanted to know if anyone has an easier way of masking those hard shapes like "hexagon" for instance

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:50 pm

cookie cutters not have the shape you want?
if not then masking is your friend..

if its a still image you can always do it in photoshop... O.o

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:54 pm

Turn on the snap in the Pan/Crop window, make any shaped mask with six points, and move the points around until you get a decent-looking hexagon. You could also always use the shape presets in Photoshop (if you have it) and make a white hexagon on a transparent background, import that into Vegas and use it as a template for a hexagonal mask.

SupaOrginalMan021 · Post by **SupaOrginalMan021** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:53 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:cookie cutters not have the shape you want?
if not then masking is your friend..

if its a still image you can always do it in photoshop... O.o

no. cookie cutters dont have all the shapes i want o_0...yeah i know thats why I need someone to explain or give me a link of a tutorial on how to do it myself =/..thx anyway

by still image. you mean a regular picture or a saved screenshot by vegas right?

SupaOrginalMan021 · Post by **SupaOrginalMan021** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:55 pm

CrackTheSky wrote:Turn on the snap in the Pan/Crop window, make any shaped mask with six points, and move the points around until you get a decent-looking hexagon. You could also always use the shape presets in Photoshop (if you have it) and make a white hexagon on a transparent background, import that into Vegas and use it as a template for a hexagonal mask.

thx man^^..yes i do have adobe photoshop cs3.and if I have any problem ill be sure to let you know k.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:57 am

SupaOrginalMan021 wrote:a saved screenshot by vegas right?

yes

:3

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:53 pm

Another option for regular polygons is to find the shape in a font. Use the text generator with a large size (100+). Wingdings2 has a hexagon.

lingchou · Post by **lingchou** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:53 pm

I'm pretty sure your question has been answered already... >.>"
But if you're talking about doing something a little like this:

Then click
Track FX > Cookie Clutter (You'll need about 5) > Select "Reset to None" > Decrease size > Choose Shape (Triangles and Arrowheads work best) > place them in places where in the end, the leftover shape of the video is a certain shape.

Sort of confusing, but it works. ^^;;

SupaOrginalMan021 · Post by **SupaOrginalMan021** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:51 pm

lingchou wrote:I'm pretty sure your question has been answered already... >.>"
But if you're talking about doing something a little like this:

Then click
Track FX > Cookie Clutter (You'll need about 5) > Select "Reset to None" > Decrease size > Choose Shape (Triangles and Arrowheads work best) > place them in places where in the end, the leftover shape of the video is a certain shape.

Sort of confusing, but it works. ^^;;

hey that is pretty useful but i finally just stop bs'ing and I just individual masked out the shape =/ but anyway thx for commenting on my fourm thing lol