How to get rid of this guy's head?
 

How would you get rid of this guy's head in Vegas Pro?

Forgot to mention, it's a static shot, so I have clean video of the corner.

I think you just answered your own question. Couldn't you mask and overlay? Of course, you can't blame him for wanting a closer look. :-)

Yeah. If you have clean frames, you use cookie cutter to take out corner, lay the clean footage behind, and maybe do some feathering, and it will work fine.

No kidding... if that were me in the shot, you'd be masking 2/3 of your frame!

Where can I buy this video?

If this is a cooking video, I'll buy it. If this is a video about scissors ... i'll buy it.

scissors might be a little extreme.. could be a Bobbit video

heck if it's a video about fridge magnets, i'm in!

it's a video about puppeteering. the brunette(real person) has her hand in the back of the blonde(a puppet)

Good lord, you guys are killing me! Thanks for the info and a good laugh. The girls think your comments are hilarious. It's a goofy short about making beer biscuits.

I want one too. Is there a director's cut version? If so, throw that in as well.

girls AND beer?!?!?
woohoo!!!!

Why don't you just kill us all and tell us that the program is going to come prepackaged in a pizza.

Then we'll be getting questions about how to overlay parts of the guy back IN the picture.

Ohhhh that was just wrong. =D

Hey Michael, if you ever need some help shooting this show, just give me a call--I'd be glad to pitch in. We're a community here and I believe we should help each other out. So just call me any time okay? About the show I mean...

I would take a captured frame like the one you posted, use Photoshop to draw the guy's head out of the picture, delete everything but the top left hand corner, and save it as a png where all the frame is transparent except that top left hand corner. Then I would generate another track in Vegas and have that png overlaid over the offending portions of the video. I've made up the png and will email it to you if you want. I sent you a private email with my contact info if you want to try this.

Thanks Nate & Laurence, but I was able to fix it in Vegas. Took about 30 seconds after I figured out which words to search on.

Be sure to post the trailer for us to critique. ;)

Amen. =D I think we would all be highly disappointed if you did not! =D

How did you end up fixing it?

I'll post a before & after video clip when I've got it fine tuned. Still needs a little bit of work.

What a disappointment! I thought the guy's head was a fantastic artistic risk... I mean, my eye was drawn nowhere else in that frame... absolutely nowhere else.

I'm looking at the framegrab right now... yup, eyes to the upper left. Up..., and to the left. Up......, and to the left.

I admit.... it takes some discipline to keep from staring at the beer.

Whoops, forgot to post the results, it's very girly so I don't know if this is the audience for it but here it is anyway. Shot in one night, edited in a couple more. Canon XH A1 24F / Sony Vegas + Cinescore / Lowell Pro + Tota lights ... blah, blah, blah ... you get the picture. Not much of a plot just mostly goofing around. We did this while we were cooped up during the winter and needed to find something to do inside.

http://www.vimeo.com/721958

Wait ... there's a guy's head in that frame? It's a trick question, right?

The only thing I'm disappointed in is their choice of beer.

Hilarious! - g

Very funny. And nice work on the running scenes. Any steadicam type devices being used there, or just cradling the camera?

For the running I used the DV MultiRig with the handle bars up, and the cam sitting low in-between. It's a solid configuration when you're not sprinting and running sideways.

Dang. I have the MultiRigPro and I've done that configuration (though not at a live shoot yet) and I've never been too happy with the results. You results are making me reconsider the Glidecam 2000 I was about to buy first thing Monday. I may need to get some more practice on the MultiRig if this kind of shots are possible.

Jason...Just don't buy a FlyCam !!!

Heh.... I looked at them and if I am going to buy a knock off / imitation steadicam, then it is going to be a well made and expensive knock off. :-)

I'm actually going to buy the Glidecam 4000 & forearm support tonight from B&H (they seem to be the only ones that can get it to me by Thursday).

The Merlin just seems overkill on the price, and I couldn't see the GL2, Beachtec, and Light & softbox being within the weight limit of the device. I weighed them in at 7 pounds.