5 Masking tricks hitfilm express | How to use mask in hitfilm express

in this video i'm going to talk about the five important uses of masking no matter whether you are using premiere pro or headphone express masking is important you want to know about this so just stay with me and let's begin number one sky replacement [Music] sky replacement is awesome you often see sky replacement in sci-fi movies suppose you have recorded a video and your sky is not looking good your sky is little bit dull so in that case it's very important to remove that sky and replace with some awesome sky you can do this with the help of the masking techniques well i already made a dedicated video on this so in sky replacement you have to draw every hand mask over the sky and you just remove it and after removing you simply place a new sky over there with proper color correction featherings and other effects so here the main principle behind the sky replacement is the masking number two removing an unwanted object sometimes what happen when you shoot a video and some unwanted particles or unwanted objects comes in your video frame so in that case it's very important to remove those elements and you can achieve this with the help of masking only okay here you have to draw a mask over that unwanted objects and just make it invert after that you simply need to duplicate of the entire video clips and make the proper timeline adjustment by using this your object will be completely removed if you use photoshop then you know the feature of cloning so in cloning what happens you need to bring some other portion of your images and you just place it over here so the same principle applied in masking also [Music] number three hiding a sensitive information this is super useful sometimes what happens you need to hide some specific portion of your main subject or some sensitive information okay so in that case you have to apply the masking so if you do not apply mask then you cannot hide that specific portion so masking is the only way where you can target that specific portion where you want to make blur or high with help of this technique you can apply some color correction on that specific portion so for example if you want to adjust some brightness or contrast on that specific portion then you need to apply the masking okay [Music] number four the most interesting fact the text reveal effect i already made a video on textable effect i mostly seen this kind of textual effect in vlogging so where a particular title is reveal from a particular object it looks super awesome so here the same masking principle is applied where you need to draw the mask and accordingly you need to apply the keyframing on the mask according to the movement of the video clip in this way you can achieve this you can check the video on i button or in the description of my video and last but not the least the masking transition nowadays transitions are fully customized with the help of masking you can reveal a different video clip from its previous video clip and again the principle is exactly same just draw the mask and accordingly you have to animate your mask so all the usages are super interesting but let me tell you one thing these are not just only uses of masking there are so many uses of mask let me know in the comments out of all these fives which one is your favorite if you want me to go in depth in each of the uses then drop me your comments make sure to subscribe my channel and press the bell icon for more interesting videos in future i'll see you then in the next video [Music]

Channel: Sanjay Sarmah

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Length: 3min 30sec (210 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 09 2021