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thenormal
9th January 2010, 17:05
First off, sorry for my bad english. My problem is simple: i have a video and i need to crop a part of it. basically, there's some guy talking and i need to crop his head and put it into another video. The problem is that i can only crop rectangles or squares with my mouse... Since i need to crop the head out, i must crop it as a circle.....
I use latest pinnacle studio...

I hope it's clear enough, like i said english is not my mother tongue...

any suggestion is quite welcome....

poisondeathray
9th January 2010, 17:43
I don't think pinnacle will be able to do this. Tools like adobe after effects are more suited for this

You need to use masks, to "draw a shape" around the area of concern (i.e. his head)

If this occurs on subsequent frames, you can animate the mask. Look up "rotoscoping" on google

hatetea58
15th January 2010, 07:13
sony vegas? with powerful editing funtion, have u tried, it will allow u to crop