My World in Motion

With the help of Lynda.com and random blogs I found while Googling, I’m teaching myself Apple’s Motion software. It’s been a bit of a challenge, but I can only imagine with continued practice, I’ll be able to do more impressive techniques.

Currently I’m editing together a video I hope we’ll launch within the next week or so on ChristianScience on YouTube. In this video, I’m wanting to separate the subject from the background and insert text in between those two layers. I also want the text to be animated and in random motion behind the subject.

After reading this blog, I successfully created an image mask around the subject in the video. This allows the subject to be perfectly cutout and removed from the background. I then copied that layer and inverted it, which made the subject appear as a black shape missing from the background. I then placed this inverted mask as the bottom layer. Next I piled the text on top of the background (the inverted image mask). Finally, I put the regular image mask (the cutout of the subject) on top of that, which allowed for the subject to be on top of the text like so:

Pretty cool, huh? Isn’t Motion amazing?

Well, my next challenge is to figure out if it’s possible to use the match move technique (or something more relevant) to track the subject’s motion so the image mask is able to move with her.

This is what’s happening to me now by the time I get to the end of the clip:

The subject has moved outside of the image mask and so the words are layering on top of her. Any helpful suggestions of how to fix this are welcomed!

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