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Solving tough keying problems in Vegas software
by Gary Rebholz

Whether we’ve been aware of it or not, we’ve all seen the chroma key or “green screen” effect used in everything from our local weather report to our favorite Hollywood blockbusters. With this technique, the movie maker shoots an actor against a solid-colored wall (very often a bright green color which gives the technique the green screen nickname, although technically you could use any color), and then the editor applies a filter to key out or remove that color so that it appears transparent. This transparency enables the editor to put a different piece of video in the layer beneath the actor, thus giving the impression that the actor is standing within the scene of that second video, as shown in Figure 1.

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Utilizing event switches in Vegas™ Pro and Vegas Movie Studio, Part II: video switches

by Gary Rebholz

Last month I introduced the topic of event switches in Vegas Pro and Vegas Movie Studio and, specifically, focused on audio event switches. In that article you learned what each audio switch does. In this article we’ll take […]