Football-Anyway to highlight single player

tavideos · Post by **tavideos** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:44 pm

I had a parent ask if there was a way to highlight his son on a HS football team. He wants me to make a tape to send to collage's. I would assume you would darken everything else somewhat, but the player. This seems like it would be very time consuming using a filter trying to keep the single player highlighted whilst moving about. If he's a lineman it wouldn't be as bad I guess. I've just recently switched to MSP8, from VS8, so I'm not real sure what it can do.

Does anyone know if this is possible to do?

Thanks,
Tim

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:36 pm

Hi tavideos,

Yes it is possible. You can find a tutorial here:
http://www.jushhome.com/nick/Tutorial/MSPMarker.asp. He states that you can use Video Paint or CG Infinity, which are Video Graphics Lab now, to create the mask. However I think that you could probably use any grapics program to make it.

Ron P.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:42 pm

You can do it with a plug in named "Moving Parts"
http://www.stagetools.com/aboutparts.htm

Steve J

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:36 pm

Sometimes I just use the STAR filter. I re-size the star, then make sure the start and end have the same properties. Then I advance the clip a bit, then move the star, repeat until end of clip. It's a quick method, and not as nice as the other methods, but it gets the job done

Regards,
George

tavideos · Post by **tavideos** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:12 am

I knew ya'll could point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
Tim

J'rome · Post by **J'rome** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:03 pm

GeorgeW wrote:Sometimes I just use the STAR filter. I re-size the star, then make sure the start and end have the same properties. Then I advance the clip a bit, then move the star, repeat until end of clip. It's a quick method, and not as nice as the other methods, but it gets the job done

Regards,
George

George, I like your idea but I need a few details. Are you referring to the "Star" in the "Overlay-Image Mask" section? If so, how do you resize the "Star" so it doesn't cover other people in the video?