On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:17:48 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
>"John@Shine-ola"
>> Admittedly an exercise in frustration for anyone who's used After Effects
>or
>> Boris Red (my fave), but if you don't have either of those applications,
>> then it's pretty much the only solution.
>Huh? I'd just make a copy of the clip and apply one of the Blur filters.
>Then I'd put the clear clip on one video track and the blurred one on the
>other, line them up, and use the square or circle Iris transition to "pop"
>the blurred spot on top of the clear picture.
This works if you are not moving the blurred/sharp areas,
and if a hard edge is OK between them. Just above is a
rather lengthy method for making and using a soft-edged
stationary mask, but maybe easier for me is the following
(suggested by a much earlier post...): in Premiere, copy
the video clip to the SI track above it; in a drawing or
photo-editor program make a simple mask with a white
background, black center, and soft edge (I use Micrographx
Picture Publisher - "create new 640x480 image", draw
freehand or with tools a mask area, feather the mask edge
to taste, select "map", "contrast-brightness", and make
both "-100" to produce black in the center, remove mask
and save the image as a PSD file); back in Premiere,
import that file, select "video", "transparency",
"image matte" - in the "choose" box, select the mask
file; adjust the blur, saturation, color, etc. of
the video on "video1" to taste...