Masking technique in premiere pro cs6?

WolfWraith

WolfWraith

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Basically I want to have some text pop up as though as if it's popping up behind a mini map, similar to how MrSark makes his text pop out underneath his facecam but it's behind his facecam, I need this behind the mini map to make it look like it's scrolling up behind it and appearing on top. Anyone know how I can do this in an easy-ish or efficient way?

I'm using a crop method atm which is fairly time consuming to have to do it for each bit of text I want and I've tried Track Matte but that didn't work the way I was doing it.
 
Wouldn't changing the blending method work? Depending on the actual effect you want to achieve, I would recommend the Add Color (Lighten) or Difference option. Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
 
Yes, it does. Alternatively, one could also apply an alpha-mask chroma key to the text/section in question. Lots of possibilities. :)
 
sparrowtm said:
Wouldn't changing the blending method work? Depending on the actual effect you want to achieve, I would recommend the Add Color (Lighten) or Difference option. Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
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This is the effect I want:
pretty much the first 5-10 seconds the text slides down, then back up. In this case he's obviously just overlapped the facecam over the text. I'm doing something similar but I'm overlapping the video on top of the text and cropping the video into a box shape and animating the text to where I want, but I don't want to have to cut and strip the video and then crop it everytime, it's effective but not convenient/efficient. I've never used this Chroma thing in premiere. But if I can apply it to a shape that I can just copy and paste to act as a mask everytime I'll give it a go.
Andrew Flint said:
I'm pretty sure Premiere just has a masking pen tool?
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It has a pen tool which can be used to draw your mask but you still have to manually mask the object. I've tried doing it with track matte but it just ends up making the text disappear completely and when it doesn't the box is still visible lol
 
Hrm. I feel as if I'm really misunderstanding something. :D Anyway, here is my go: to achieve the same thing, just resize the facecam at the beginning of the video to the size you want it. Put the facecam track on the topmost track, and leave it be. If you put your text on a track below the facecam track, it will be hidden under the facecam frame whenever it is sharing the same coordinates. To make it scroll down from below the facecam, just set one keyframe to be right under the facecam, and another keyframe to where you want the text to be when it should be shown. Voilá, show/hide text at will, doesn't take longer than 5 seconds. :)
 
sparrowtm said:
Hrm. I feel as if I'm really misunderstanding something. :D Anyway, here is my go: to achieve the same thing, just resize the facecam at the beginning of the video to the size you want it. Put the facecam track on the topmost track, and leave it be. If you put your text on a track below the facecam track, it will be hidden under the facecam frame whenever it is sharing the same coordinates. To make it scroll down from below the facecam, just set one keyframe to be right under the facecam, and another keyframe to where you want the text to be when it should be shown. Voilá, show/hide text at will, doesn't take longer than 5 seconds. :)
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lol, nah, as I said in my first post I needed it to appear behind the mini map. If it was facecam it's just simply putting the facecam on the layer above the text, I can do that.

But, I figured it out, turns out you can do it with Track matte, I was masking the wrong things apparently and had everything on the timeline muddled up. Just needed it in the right order and to apply the matte to the right video layer. Thanks for your help though guys, I appreciate it. I still need to cut the portion of the video where the text pops up but the setup I needed was:
Video 4: Mask (square shaped or whatever)
Video 3: Stripped video with track matte applied and video matte set to video 4
Video 2: the text I want behind the mask
Video 1: stock video

It's still a task but much easier than having to crop things every single time, it's more efficient at least.
 
Doh. NOW I understand what you meant. I blame my lack of sleep. Dumdeedum. Anyway, happy you sorted it out. :)
 
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