Peter354

Right that's solved it , looking at the web site noticed that there is a mac system which I down loaded, to find that the version I've got on windows is outdated , so now have downloaded latest window version, to find that there is a check box under mask ! Thanks for everybody ,who helped and will now use the mac version as it will help on memory

Not sure whether I'm going stupid or that maybe I have a older copy of the program , have had for couple of years but I assumed that it would update. I will add that I have the free copy as want to see if it will do what I want before purchasing, and that Im running on a emulator from a mac, which can slow thing down a bit , but not enough to miss check boxes have enclosed a screen vidio of what I do to bring up a mask ,and can see nowhere to uncheck a box (or would have done if I could see where to save att. On clicking insert other media ,it tells me I dont have any existing , or asks for a http)

hi thanks for everybody who has replied. Have managed to do most of it. The bit that is causing the problem is check “Mask Inside” . cannot find that control anywhere , have a background box, but not a inside /outside tick box?

I should have added its a video I'm trying to mask off . Could do it frame by frame, but looking for something that would mask off selected bits in the whole video peter

What I'm looking to do is add a overlay to a background . I can do this using crop, but being square. it doesn't conform to the shape very wellleaving a lot of the background still there . Have been experimenting with mask, but still cant find a away to mask something off, and remove everything not in the mask Have tried green screening it but it still removes everything in and outside of the mask . am I being too optimistic peter