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Marv's Way

Here's a peek at the Vegas veg file for the Marv's Way sequence.  In Photopaint, I created 10 close ups and 10 medium shots of Marv on a green background.  For each of the 10 stills I inserted a different mouth which I borrowed from the Bilbo Baggins phoneme series.  Each still was meticulously placed under the music track to match the vocals.  I don't think I ever counted how many events I ended up with, but if you look at what's visible on the time line you can get an idea that it's a lot.   I also created a set of closed eyes, raised eyebrows and arms which either popped in and out or animated with key frames to give Marv that ever so life like appearance.  I rendered this veg as an uncompress AVI and chromo keyed it as a new track over a scrolling background in the main project.

Were I to do this project again today, I would have saved the stills as Photoshop psd files with transparent background and slightly feathered edges. This provides a much cleaner overlay than chromo key with zero fringing.  Now, with Vegas 6.0 I could have nested this veg over into the main project without the bulky avi.

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