Advanced Cloning: Disappearing Act - Ulead MEDIASTUDIO PRO 6 User Manual

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Advanced cloning: Disappearing act

You can combine the Cloning (see page 50), Power Duplicating (see page
53), and the Macro Recording (see page 57) capabilities of Video Paint to
create the effect of a person disappearing. Before you try this though, you
have to know information about blue screens, see page 167. You also need
a suitable background for the video to play against. For best results, you
should probably use a still image for the background.
1. In Video Editor, overlay your blue screen video on top of a background
image and render the clip as a new video file with no compression.
2. In Video Paint, click the Open Video File button on the Standard
toolbar to open the clip you just created (video window). Then, open
the original background in a second edit window (background win-
dow).
3. Click the Clone tool on the Tool panel. In the Options tab of the
Brush Panel, click the Frame button and with the
anywhere on the background window.
4. In the video window, paint over the person you want to disappear.
5. Next, power duplicate the paint layer of the video window you just
cloned across every frame of the video.
6. Click the Painting tool on the Tool panel and select Paint Brush.
7. In the Shape tab of the Brush panel, click the Eraser mode button and
then the Recording button.
8. When the Macro Recording begins, erase the paint layer you just
cloned in.
9. Click the Recording button again and save the macro to the Macro:
Custom folder.
10.To apply the macro to your video, drag-and-drop its thumbnail from
the Production Library into the edit window and define its application
properties in the Macro Playing Options dialog box.
An example of a disappearing act
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