Hi John,

I'm guessing he means like this:

Hi Terry,

Yes, that's it, but that is a whole different complexity and requires total animation. I haven't seen anything in what we have that would do this. The closest is the Adorage animation. The default actually stops with the rip taking up only part of the screen. If the OP wants a real person to rip through, then he would need to do it with a green screen and some masking, a great project for MEP/Xara if Magix could get the animation working again.

The Adorage transition normally ends at this image:

The method is simply 2 masks and a graphic that matches the outer ripped part:

And here is the "ripped" image:

So imagine that the above image is the rip in the drum.

Then the second video clip would have to the be green screen of the person, and it would require another mask to get the person's body cut off with the bottom of the rip where it is supposed to be hidden, and then remainder is overlaid.

Thus we could have:

Hi

It is possible to create this effect as John CB has said however it requires further additions and editting in MEP to get the total punch through effect.

Here is an example of how I did it - still needs a little refinement in the KF animation.

The parts needed are

1. Background image or video to be punched through
    
2. Punch through mask - this can be an animated image - I created the one in the example using Adorage as John CB has suggested.
    
3. A modified version of 1 starting with the end of the punch through but not including the object from 4
    
4. A video or image to punch through the background - this may need to be a green screen video depending on what you want the background behind the punched through object to be.
    
5. Any other video / images you want to appear in front of the effect - in this example the star.

Note item 4 is animated using KF to adjust Size and Position and split into two parts

1. - the first part on track 1 - is so that it appears behind the background (1) and mask (2)
    
2. The second part (track 4) is so that it appears in front of the modified video (3)

Below is the stacking and editting arrangement on the timeline

     HiRes version here.

HTH

John EB

Phenomenal. I am taken aback by these responses. I am dearly grateful for the quick informative replies as my deadline is quickly approaching! Thank you! I am still at work but will attempt to apply these recommendation once at home and resume my daughter's Sweet 16 video project.

Warm regards,

Michael

Thank you all again for your time, effort, and expertise! I went ahead and downloaded the Adorage proDAD but do not see the visual effet as shown below. Perhaps I purchased the wrong Vol.? [Vol.13; Adorage 3.0.108] Is the referenced effect associated with another volumn/package?

Hi Mike,

Sorry, I should have told you which package; vol. 6. It came as a freebie way back as part of the Starter-Pack. They included some samples (155 out of 10,000) from Volumes 1 to 9. You may already have it. I also purchased Vol. 13 and I think it was just to get the plugin for Magix as Adorage may have come with a different NLE. Once you have the plugin, the volumes work. The standalone also works but is cumbersome.

It gets a lot harder if you want your emerging object to become visible outside the 'reveal area'. Like Porky Pig waving at the viewer. But for a mere spoken sentence, and/or a speech balloon, those two techniques from John CB and John EB are great.

There is also one built-in effect in MEP that can be used at a pinch. More a 'four corner fold' than a 'rip'. It's one of the many built-in transitions, but it took me ages to figure how to use it to get anywhere near the effect under discussion.

High res: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/Looney3.jpg

Result:

or via Dropbox:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/Out.mp4

I'm not satisfied with it, particularly my mask (which has given me a few extra teeth fillings amongst other flaws) and am keen to hear suggested improvements using this transition.

downloaded the PSP-8, perhaps the learning curve is greater than i expected with limited time to figure out the vectoring. online tutorials are a mixed bag of tricks and cannot filter these queried results fast enough nor use pre shaped vectored objects to match the MEP 4 corner fold. frustrating for an amateur as i am....keep it simple as they say. pressing onward....

Hi Mike,

I think you may have misunderstood one point. I used PSP 8 merely to fill my intended 'reveal area' with solid green. (So that I could use the Chroma Key in MEP.) And note that version 8 is very old. Other image editors (which make it relatively easy to select and fill an area) could be used, of course.

Did you say what version of MEP you're using?

Can you be more specific about exactly what you're trying to do please? Screenshots and/or links to video clips would be good.

And is the 3DMorph transition I suggested even suitable? Have you tried a few examples of it in normal transition mode? It's not a close match to your original Looney Tunes example. Your middle name has to be Disney to reproduce that. 

Hi Terry,

I'm using MEP 2015 to create my daughter's sweet 16 video. ~12mins duration. It is the closing that I'm attempting to closely mimic the Looney Tunes piece. Actually not too tattered, she's maintained her stuffed "Flatso" piggy, affectionately named "P", since she was an infant. A video clip of her "P" by way of my quick pupeteering skills will anamate this stuffed toy in which i'd like to have, as you were able to accomplish, rip/punch through the bass drum. I'm using the 'four fold' built-in effect in your aforementioned reply. I'm just trying to figure out how to 'fill' the black void within the opened four fold effect with this video clip.  

Hi Mike,

Still a bit hard for me to visualise, but I assume you're following the steps in my earlier detailed reply? Also study this additional illustration:

High res: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/Looney4.jpg

Depending on the colour content of your background and video clip you may need to use white, black or blue instead of green. And you may have to use trial/error with the Threshold and Fading range sliders.

Hi Terry,

Regarding your last response with image; I don't know how to select/specify an area to color it green which would be used to fill with the video i have in mind. The other option attempt your earlier recommendation [5/18/16] where you had an image of yourself coming through the Loney Tunes drum. This is exactly the object that I'm attempting to 'rip' / punch through and fill with a short video of the stuffed animal. I'm not sure of your exaple was animated. 

Hi Mike,

Did you follow steps 1 and 2 of my original instructions?

Without seeing any visual material from your project (screenshots, photos, video clips) I'm afraid it's hard for me to be much more specific. I wonder if you're being a bit over ambitious with this effect?

But if you're still determined, I'd suggest you first try working through something as close as possible to one (or more) of the three examples we gave you before applying it to your own source material.

Re your point about animation: for simplicity I chose a photo and then animated it with a fast zoom as described, but I could have used a video clip instead.

Hi Terry,

Regarding your last response with image; I don't know how to select/specify an area to color it green which would be used to fill with the video i have in mind. The other option attempt your earlier recommendation [5/18/16] where you had an image of yourself coming through the Loney Tunes drum. This is exactly the object that I'm attempting to 'rip' / punch through and fill with a short video of the stuffed animal. I'm not sure of your exaple was animated. 

Hi Mike,

How are you making out with this?

The way make the green area or any other mask is to draw it in a program like Xara or PSP. I haven't done any vector drawing in PSP yet, only in Xara. To get it right, I import the image into Xara, resize it to be the same size as the image in MEP, so look at the image size in MEP under Effects. Here are 3 ways:

1. White mask: draw a vector shape over the area that you want to mask and fill it white for a mask. You can make soft edges by feathering it. Then delete the photo and export the drawing as a jpeg to get a B&W file. Sometimes I put a black box the size of my MEP screen as the background. Then I import that into MEP and place it on a track between the background and foreground objects. Since the mask file is the size of my screen, it falls at exactly the right place. Then I give it a chromakey alpha.

2. Green screen on photo: Same way, draw a vector shape and fill it with green. Then export the combine image to jpeg and import it into MEP and give it chromakey green. The green part will be transparent. Thus if you place the image on track 2, whatever is place on track 1 will be seen in the green area.

3. Same as 1, except create a composite image of the rip, background in the rip and foreground (Terry's head or the puppet).

If you want the pop up image to show up beyond the edges of the green area, then that is another problem. The image would first have to be trimmed to just the outline, like Terry's head in my video, and exported from the PSP or Xara as a transparent png file. You would also have to trim any parts that are supposed to be hidden, so you can see that I trimmed Terry's shoulders and below his chin to fit perfectly into the rip.

If your puppet is animated, then you would have the problem of masking the part that is supposed to be hidden behind the bottom of the rip would also need some masking.

Terry should stop encouraging me. Here is the latest incarnation:

Here is a screen shot of the objects on the timeline:

Hi John,

Nice!

P.S: Please contact me by PM/email re my royalties.

Thank you for following up! I am still entrenched with making this work. I copied the objects John C. B. provided [thank you!] and attempted to arrange as instructed but I don't believe the way I produced these are appropriate since only the ''alpha.jpg is shown.

I've working with the MEP four corner fold as suggested by Terry P. I am making progress with this and the movement is nice except I'd like to somehow stop the four corner fold midway of its' transition so as not to peal back the whole looney tunes framed but rather stop within the drum area. I'll place in drop-box to share.

Hi Mike,

You need a thorough understanding as to how to use chromakey and masks, and once you understand everything, you do like me, try all of the combinations until something works.

In my latest version, things are somewhat inversed because the object, Terry's head, has been carefully cropped in the photo and I wanted this to come overtop of the background, that is, stickig out of the hole and going beyond it.

What you can't see in my screen shot is what to apply to the various masks. Here are the details:

Track 1 - background

Track 2 - rgb.jpg - give a chromakey black

Track 3 - mixer-mask.tif - chromakey alpha, make sure that the arrow at the left of the object when you scroll over it is pointing downwards, if not, click on it to invert it

Track 4 - alpha.tif - Chromakey alpha, arrow pointing up

Track 5 is somebackground colour that will fill in the black part of the hole

Track 6 is the cropped overlay image.

Ignore the other tracks, they were just to get Porky's mouth overtop of where Terry's mouth is. But if you want to know, the mask on track 7 is chromakey alpha with the arrow pointing down. What happens is that the white part shows what is on track 8, the black part shows the lower track(s).

HTH

Hi Mike,

Pleased to hear you're making progress. And thanks for the illustration, but can you upload the original (presumably high resolution) to Dropbox and post a link, as I cannot read the text on the various objects.

And if you have time, use File > Backup > Copy project and media into a folder, zip it up and upload it to Dropbox so that we can see exactly what you're doing and maybe try to reproduce it.

I'm sure you're almost there!

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I meant to ask: are you exporting the transition, as per step 2 of my original instructions? That should help you to get the end at the right stage of unfolding.

@JohnCB,

John, Is that last screenshot showing the layout of your 9 tracks available in high resolution, so that I can read the detailed text on your objects please?

Hi,

Here is the hi-res screen shot.

Would either you or Mike like the MVP and the objects?

Mike did a great job on his effect.

While I'm thinking of it, to stop the curl effect from completing, can the right-click command "Insert still image at the playback marker" be used? This creates an image extending to the length of the object. Not sure if this was in MEP2014. I use this often to stop the video to just show a static view, then I may have it continue on. For completeness, I actually cut the clip, move everything at the right to the right the distance that I want to leave for the still image, then drag the right side of the cut clip to the right to close up the gap, set the playback marker at the same frame where it had been cut and apply the still image command.

Hi,

Here is the hi-res screen shot.

I think you've applied full alpha, because it seems to be invisible here!

Would either you or Mike like the MVP and the objects?

Yes, thanks John, I would please.

Mike did a great job on his effect.

Indeed - persistence pays! And I learned what a 'piggy flatso' is.

While I'm thinking of it, to stop the curl effect from completing, can the right-click command "Insert still image at the playback marker" be used?

I don't see that menu item anywhere here in MEP 2014 Premium. Would speed up my two-step equivalent (export still image and re-import).

This creates an image extending to the length of the object. Not sure if this was in MEP2014. I use this often to stop the video to just show a static view, then I may have it continue on. For completeness, I actually cut the clip, move everything at the right to the right the distance that I want to leave for the still image, then drag the right side of the cut clip to the right to close up the gap, set the playback marker at the same frame where it had been cut and apply the still image command.

Still experimenting - spending far too much time on it, but my curiosity isn't yet quenched!

The only reliable way I've found to handle 'masked 3DMorphing' is to set up the transition carefully and export and reimport before proceeding with the masking stuff. Intuitively I thought that I could 'sandwich' an alpha mask between identical transitions, but it fails. Yet a crossfade instead of 3DMorph fracture does work.