Title Effect Using Masks.

[Chris B]

I saw a similar effect elsewhere and likes the "news style" look. Here's my attempt (done in VMS but PE will be fine)

Basically just a mask of one video overlaid onto another with a title added on top of that.


Video tracks as follows:

Title
Frame
Mask
Title background video
Background Video

Chris.

[momoffduty]

I like the look too of a motion background as the title background. I don't use PrEl anymore, but am glad to see the mask feature was added. On earlier versions you had to create a track matte. Nice one Chris.

[Steve Grisetti]

A nice-looking lower-third, Chris!

If you can detail how you did it, I'm sure many Muvipixers would sure appreciate it.

[Chris B]

No problem Steve.

I'm of course using video in the example from the excellent Muvipix motion backgrounds.

I used Vegas Movie Studio but the Track Matte in Premier Elements would do the same thing.

First you need to create a frame. I drew this is LibreOffice Draw (http://www.libreoffice.org/) and then did a screen capture to Photoshop Elements to scale it to the right size. I also filled in the middle of it to create a mask. These two images are here for reference although doing it again I might make the border slightly thinner. You could also the boxes to the esdge of the video and not have the left and right sides of the frame.

http://muvipix.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10215/title_frame_matt_copy.png
http://muvipix.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10215/title_frame.png

In VMS I used the following settings. I'm only making notes of where things are changed from the default..

Track 5 - Background Video
Track 4 - Lower Third Background Video. This is set as a composting child to track 3. The opacity was set to 75% as well.
Track 3 - Matt set as a multiply (mask). I applied the "Mask generator" effect using the Luminance Mask inverted.
Track 2 - Frame. I applied "invert" and then the "Mask Generator" again using Luminance.
Track 1 - Title Text - slight background shadow and free-form positioning to get it "just right"

Couple of fades applied and we're done. Here's a picture of the final workspace showing how everything's laid out.



Chris.

[Steve Grisetti]

Great! Thanks, Chris!

[Chuck Engels]

Thanks Chris, that actually helps me understand all the went into creating the effect, very cool !!