[tnmustang]

We are producing a video, for church, for christmas. While taping the 3 wise men, I got footage in the upper portion of the video, of a house (among the tree tops). This scene is not very long. Is it possible to "brush over" or add tree tops over the house to wipe it out of the scene? Thanks

[sknis]

We are producing a video, for church, for christmas. While taping the 3 wise men, I got footage in the upper portion of the video, of a house (among the tree tops). This scene is not very long. Is it possible to "brush over" or add tree tops over the house to wipe it out of the scene? Thanks

Yes, you can add an overlay of trees to cover the house. If the house is a unique color, you may be able to use chroma key to delete the color(s) of the house making it invisible. You'll still need to have something to put in that place. If you go out and take a pictures of the trees, you can use that under the video to show through the chroma keyed color. See the thread about chroma key in the Tips and Tricks part of the V9 forum for some excellent directions and videos.

Before you do a lot with it, if the house is just in one small location of the video, turn on the TV safe zone to see if it will be inside or outside what will show on a STD TV. If it does, but just barely, you can zoom in on the video so that the house is not in the picture (zoom in on the first frame and the same amount on the last frame and the entire video will be zoomed in to that point (learned that yesterday).