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A how-to on creating masks in QuickTime Pro Apps
I do Vjing (semi-pro) and many of my clips have letterbox bars in a 4:3 box. I recently needed an easy way to remove them and just have the image. After a bit of trial and error with masks, I worked it out ... and of course, then I found this write-up which explains it all. From the author's comment to his original post:
What you want to produce here is a black box with a white border, as seen in the bottom left hand corner of Fig. 3. It will look a bit like a film slide. (You can also make a white box with a black border and then hit the Invert button in QuickTime Player, but I digress.)

When you insert this black-on-white graphic into QuickTime Player as a mask, QTP will hide the parts of the image that lie under the white areas.
This has proved to be very useful indeed. It's a great way to easily crop out unwanted portions of a movie.
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Vjing
Authored by: googoo on Aug 27, '07 09:01:54AM

At the risk of revealing how unhip I am, I did not understand what vjing was at first! Then it hit me: you are being a VJ (ala MTV). Thanks for a nice, hint, though.

-Mark



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Vjing
Authored by: Anonymous on Aug 28, '07 02:36:30AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VJ_(video_performance_artist)



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A how-to on creating masks in QuickTime Pro
Authored by: rhowell on Aug 27, '07 09:24:40AM
This is a nice tip. The Quicktime User's Guide also explains this and a number of other very useful features.

http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/quicktime/


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A how-to on creating masks in QuickTime Pro
Authored by: MurphyM on Aug 27, '07 03:34:25PM
Here are two tutorials:

http://murphymac.com/how-to-make-a-quicktime-skin/

http://murphymac.com/borderless-quicktime-playback/


One shows how to use a mask. One shows how to make a mask for borderless Quicktime playback.


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