Photo with border/frame effect plugin

tdsilk wrote on 7/23/2010, 8:07 AM
Hello,

I'm looking for a plugin or maybe someone can tell me if Vegas Pro 8 can easily do this with the dafault effects. The effect I want is to create a still from a video (which I can do) and have it have a border around the image as it zooms out. Similar to an effect I believe FCP has. The border is similar to the borders old polaroids had. Is there a way (or plugin) to do this?

Troy

Comments

R0cky wrote on 7/23/2010, 8:10 AM
I think that Ultimate S from VASST can do this with its photo montage feature. I think you can download a trial.

rocky
PerroneFord wrote on 7/23/2010, 8:52 AM
Umm.. FX, "Sony Border".

The only thing I don't care for about the implementation is that it eats into the actual video rather than making the size larger, but I guess I can understand why it does it that way.
rs170a wrote on 7/23/2010, 9:31 AM
When I need to do this, I save the image in PNG format, bring it into Photoshop, add whatever border I want, re-save it and bring it back into Vegas.

Mike
musicvid10 wrote on 7/23/2010, 9:35 AM
I agree with what Mike said.

It works for more than stills, too. You can export a video still image sequence, run an Action in PS on the folder, re-import to Vegas, and have a nicely framed or bordered video.
Byron K wrote on 7/23/2010, 11:15 AM
Another technique I've used is create a white media generated background track below the video track I want to create the border around. On the video track use cookie cutter to create the white boarder.

Make the media generated boarder track a child of the top track.

Use Parent motion on the top track to move and resize the video within the frame.

Frames can also be customized by using one of the techniques above or create your own frame using a white object against a transparent alpha channel background.

Here's a quick demo I just did using the media generated background.


One nice thing about using the media generated background is you can change the color of the border.
tdsilk wrote on 7/23/2010, 11:39 AM
All great responses. Thanks much. I use a snapshot plugin that was referenced in this forum to capture stills. It does a great job, but it takes a small bite out of the quality and I often times have to add the sharpen filter lto get it back.
Ivan Ivanov wrote on 7/25/2010, 2:40 PM
In SpiceMASTER 2.5 PRO you can easy make PIPs with a border and shadow. Try the demo - it have a lot of PIP presets.
http://www.pixelan.com/sm25/dlform.htm

Ivan
kentwolf wrote on 7/25/2010, 4:18 PM
>>...Umm.. FX, "Sony Border"...

There is a bug with this filter.

The border changes size as it moves across the screen. Discovered this when doing some Ultimate S stuff.

It is the Border filter and not Ultimate S. This has been noted by some others here as well as reported to tech support over a year ago.

No response. No fix.
Byron K wrote on 7/26/2010, 11:09 AM
Yes, I remember reading about this here, some people were experiencing issues with this effect. Here are the threads:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=717046
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=680762

Which is why I didn't even bother with it. YMMV so I'd say use the Boarder FX if it works. I don't use borders that much but I've been getting consistent results using the two track method.