Is there a way to fix the egregious error in this video?

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Here is a sample instructional video my wife and I made. It is supposed to teach players how to play Go (the board game from China).

At around 3:08, one player accidentally knocks a stone out of place, and in the next clip, it is clear (made even clearer by the fade effect) that the stone was “replaced” to the wrong intersection.

I have until tomorrow to hand this over to the people that want to see it. Between now and then is there a way I can fix this without re-filming the clip? It will be very hard to refilm it now that everything else is done because the timing would have to be exact to make sure the clip fits where it’s supposed to fit.

Do you think WMM (which is what we used) has what it would take to, for example, copy a bit of the image of the correctly-placed stone from one frame, and superimpose that image onto the incorrectly-placed area in the other clip? And have the fade effect apply correctly?

-KR

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There are of course many other errors in the video but I think this is the one that really stands out as needing fixing.

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Just cut right before his thumb hits the piece.

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Sorry, I don’t know exactly what you mean. The piece will still be in the wrong place on the next clip. (Plus now the hand will mysteriously disappear and I’ll have to go re-record the narration because I haven’t yet figured out how to just put in bits of narration in specific places in WMM. Very new at this. :smiley: )

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Oh, sorry.
I see that the piece was moved to the wrong spot after he bumped it.

The only way to fix it is to use a matte and put an image of a piece in the right spot. Easy to do in something like Final Cut.

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Ahh… any free or extremely cheap alternatives for Windows?

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Sorry, can’t help there.
I might be able to do this for you, although the tinmefame is a bit tight.

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Hey - I’m downloading the video now.
Give me a few minutes to play with it in FCPX.

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OK, I’ve gotten rid of the worst of it.
There’s still a tiny “blip” at the end of the cross-fade, since I didn’t have the original clips to work with. PM me, and we’ll figure out how to get the file to you.