Adding a video to a television screen
If you ever go to work in a visual-effects house, one of the first things they'll want you to do is screen replacement. This usually involves motion tracking. Let's see it in action.
Getting ready
From the exercise files for this chapter, double-click on the 06_07 project. There are two layers in the project; a still of the TV screen and a movie file. You can temporarily disable the visibility of the still by clicking on the check mark next to it in the Layers tab. Our goal here is to mask out the center of the TV screen and replace it with the video clip that we will scale down and rotate so that it fits. As a bonus step, we'll bring back in some of the black color from the screen to make the shot more realistic.
How to do it...
Let's find the Bezier Mask tool to choose the selection we need to remove.
Select the Bezier Mask tool from the toolbar as shown in the following screenshot. Press Command + = to zoom in on your Canvas so that we can add precise...
