Logo Question

mjroddy wrote on 1/13/2006, 2:07 PM

Wow... I've been asking for a lot of help today.
Thanks to all who have played along!
I'm doing a :30 for a client and I'd like to animate their logo.
www.puralife.com
I COULD just use the still you see there (that's all they're expecting), but if I could "bring it to life," that would be very cool.
Any suggestions how to do this in Vegas 6.0c?

Comments

winrockpost wrote on 1/13/2006, 2:28 PM

you get the layered file and you can do some cool stuff,, but if all you have is the flattened image it will be challenging.

mjroddy wrote on 1/13/2006, 2:38 PM

Right now, I'm just looking to "recreate" the look. They don't need the exact look, as far as I know. I'm just looking to simulate water ripples. I know I can do it in Boris, but I was hoping to keep this all "Vegas Native."

fldave wrote on 1/13/2006, 2:53 PM

I'd ask them for a high quality original to start with, and in the end, return them an animated .gif for their use. Value added stuff.

The technical Vegas stuff I will defer to the experts to answer :)

vitalforce2 wrote on 1/13/2006, 2:58 PM

SwishMax can do ripple as a flash file.

PeterWright wrote on 1/13/2006, 5:26 PM

You can do the ripple thing in Vegas, using some footage of water rippling and height mapping or bump mapping. I think there's a tutorial somewhere - maybe VASST.

Steve Mann wrote on 1/14/2006, 12:45 PM

Get the original water JPG without the text (better yet, if they have the logo in layers on a PSD file).

Drag the image to the timeline
Use Pan Crop, make sure your starting keyframe is highlighted and shrink the frame so that you can pan across two "rippples".
Go to the end of the keyframe timeline and add a keyframe here.
Adjust the x-position so that the image would have moved by one ripple.

Add the velocity envelope and reduce the vel to 50%, and stretch your clip out to the next "V" notch in the timeline.

Play with overlaying copies of the clip with an offset of a second or two until you see the effect you want.

Steve