Using VideoStudio to highlight a moving person or object.

[sjj1805]

A question has been asked several times
"how can I highlight someone in a crowd, or a player at the football match"

After giving this some thought I came up with a method based upon my method to
Blur faces etc with VideoStudio

Before viewing the "How to" Video - please view this short clip to see how the final result will look. Highlight a moving person demo
Once you have finished watching that click the following link to see how I did that.

How to Highlight Moving Person/object

[sjj1805]

I just noticed that there is another method in the excellent series of Video Tutorials by Take One Flix.

Tracking a Moving Subject



This tutorial works both in Ulead VideoStudio 10 and 11.

In this video tutorial we¡¦ll show you how to create a circular marquee to track a moving subject in a video.
We show you how to apply a circular marquee or a camera view finder and a telescopic gun shot cross hairs onto a video clip.

[Black Lab]

It is my experience that if you simply highlight the object you want followed for just a couple of seconds, the human eye/brain will stay focused on that subject without it being highlighted continuously. Therefore, this is how I highlight a football player, for instance.

First I change the default background color in VS (in Preferences). I change it to something that can be easily keyed out, such as bright green.

I then create a title with nothing but the letter "O". I try to use a font that has the roundest and thickest "O". I increase the font size, make it bold, and make it red.

I then capture the frame as a still image, which puts a clip of a red "O" on a green background into my image library.

With your project in the timeline, go to the image gallery and drag that "O" clip to an overlay track. On the Edit tab you want to choose the Chroma-Key feature to key out the green background, making it transparent. You should now see a red "O" over your video clip.

Re-size and move the "O" so it highlights the subject. Like I said, I set the duration of the clip for a couple of seconds. The eye will naturally focus on that subject even after the "O" disappears.