Masking a composited video or Cookie Cutter

[Uncle Ben]

Aren't these two concepts basically the same? Isn't the Cookie Cutter an easier way of accomplishing the same thing as masking a composited video (as explained in The Muvipix Guide to Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11, pp. 116-117?)

[Steve Grisetti]

Yes. Essentially the Cookie Cutter is a mask. Just as, technically, the Crop tool is a mask -- since you really are just making areas of your video clip transparent.

[Uncle Ben]

Yes. Essentially the Cookie Cutter is a mask. Just as, technically, the Crop tool is a mask -- since you really are just making areas of your video clip transparent.

Yeah, that's what I thought too, but I was trying to understand the pros and cons of one method over the other. It seems to me that the Cookie Cutter route is the more expedient way of doing this. I don't have to worry about parents and grand-parents - the cookie monster takes care of the whole family for me.

[Steve Grisetti]

There are many roads to the same destination, Ben. Use whatever methods seems most natural to you.

[Uncle Ben]

There are many roads to the same destination, Ben. Use whatever methods seems most natural to you.

Capisco!

[Steve Grisetti]

Prego.