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farss wrote on 2/1/2005, 11:29 PM
I'm sure Vegas has a film scratches FX somewhere, or try any of the various forms of blur, or the TV simulation.
Just be a little careful if going out to DVD, anything that causes a lot of changes to the whole frame between frames might not encode too well.
Bob.
jaegersing wrote on 2/2/2005, 12:53 AM
Sounds like you need to apply a little bit of Glow.

Richard Hunter
jkrepner wrote on 2/2/2005, 8:41 AM
Try something like this:

Copy an event and place it on a track directly above the original event. Add heavy glow, maybe some blur, and slightly zoom in on the event (using track motion or event Pan/Crop) a few %.
On the new top track, goof around with the track overlay (try Add) and then on that top track, right click and insert/remove envelop>composite level. Add some handles and adjust the opacity at will.

If you really want to get wild, copy that track (the top one that is zoomed in) and past it a few times, or rather right-click and "duplicate track" a few times. You can lower the opacity of each new track and then off set each event a few frames to add a cool tracer type effect. From there you can zoom in more, or add more/less glow. I'd image sublte is what you are shooting for, so try things in small doses at first.

Anyway, the idea is to try adding something to a track above something else and doing some stuff with overlay modes and adjusting opacity of the top track. That has been helping me as of late.

Make any sense?
Mandk wrote on 2/2/2005, 10:00 AM
SOunds like a great idea. I can't wait to get home and try it. Will be perfect for a photomontage project I am working on.

Thanks (and I wasn't even the original poster).
jkrepner wrote on 2/2/2005, 10:53 AM
Thanks!

One other thing I just stumbled across: (sorry to ramble)

I have a terrible habit of over using the flash dissolve and generally flashing to white all of the time, mainly on montages and music based videos, and I think I figured out a cool new idea. I had a terribly over exposed close up of a scruffy beer glass taken with a digital camera, it's almost pure white but has just enough detail and texture to make it interesting. Instead inserting a pure white media generated event to "flash" in and out of using the composite level, I started using this picture instead.

I place it on track #1 and then I zoom in on it and pan around setting it to move over time. I set track # 1's compositing mode to "add" and then insert the composite level envelop. Then I add handles to the composite level line and drag them up and down on the various beats (or what have you) and it looks pretty slick. Certainly more interesting then just strobing in/out of pure white.

Point is this: since the picture on track #1 has different levels of white, smudges, and scratches and it's moving randomly, when it's added on top of the main video track #2 and faded in/out it almost looks like a film grain or film FX without being so obviously fake. I'm interested in trying this with some other still images, perhaps modified in Photoshop or something.

Ugh... speaking of beer glasses... my head is still foggy today.