Getting rid of logo in VS 10

bobcwilson · Post by **bobcwilson** » Fri May 19, 2006 3:05 am

Hi

I have two clips from the same scene. One has a logo in the upper left hand
corner and the other has a logo on the lower right hand corner. Is it possible to take the upper half of one clip and the lower half of the other clip to make a single clip without any logo?

Any Ideas?

Thanks,

Bob

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri May 19, 2006 3:17 am

Not in front of my own computer at the moment but here's one way that should work.
Take the first clip with the logo in the lower half and place a solid green colour clip on the logo to obscure it by using an overlay track. Render this as a new clip.

Now clear the timeline and place the second clip on the video track.
Place your newly rendered clip that has the green block, onto an overlay track so that it is above the first.

Now use the chroma screen effect to remove the green block (i.e. make it transparant).

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri May 19, 2006 3:19 am

Hi Bob,

In theory, yes it is.

Use the distort clip option for the clip on the main track. Then slide it up (or down) until half off the stage. Then put the second clip on a (can you believe it, it's no longer the overlay track. Then do the same. Then export it, or render to same as project settings, or same as first clip.

It's like doing a Picture in Picture...

Ron P.

bobcwilson · Post by **bobcwilson** » Fri May 19, 2006 6:14 am

Hi

I tried placing a solid green color on the overlay track to hide the logo. When I played the project, it looked fine. But when I rendered it out, VS 10 left a dark thin green border at the top of the color block.

When I used the chroma key effect, it got rid of the solid green color block but left a thin green line going across the video. I raised the color similarity option to 99% which helped but it still does not get rid of the green line.

I tried doing this in VS 9 but it still did the same thing.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Bob

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri May 19, 2006 6:27 am

Try a different colour block, may or may not work.
Perhaps a light grey.

bobcwilson · Post by **bobcwilson** » Fri May 19, 2006 6:53 am

Hi

I tried different colors but they all left a thin line through the video. What I ended up doing is darkening the Chroma color so that the color was aproximately between the green color block and the dark green border. By upping the Color similarity to 99%, the Chroma key was able to take out both shades of green.

bob