Digital Juice has just released a quick tutorial called Adding Depth with Reflection. Hosted by senior editor D. Eric Franks, the video describes how to use track motion, a gradient mask, and compositing to give your media the appearance of being reflected (on water, glass, some alien surface). And best of all, the tutorial is for Sony Vegas (including Vegas Movie Studio) users.
While reading my Custom Transition Using Generated Media tutorial, a reader noticed some similarities between the resulting video and an effect she’d seen and has been trying to duplicate. The general idea of the effect is to start out with a video in black and white; have a tinted area “move” across the screen; and for that tinted area to act as a “swipe” that turns the footage to color as it passes over. The visitor does not know what program was used to create the video she saw, but asked if I knew how to achieve a similar effect in Vegas. It took a bit of experimenting, but I believe I’ve got it pretty figured out.
I’ll start out by showing the end result so you know what you’re aiming for.
If there’s one thing that any piece of software should do, it’s help us avoid repetition. You get more done in less time if you’re not trying to re-invent the wheel. Here are five tips to reuse work that you’ve already done in Sony Vegas so you don’t have to repeat yourself.
I was just toying around in Sony Vegas and created a simple but, I think, nice animated background. It uses just two pieces of generated media, the Bump Map composting mode to give it some depth, and a transition I probably wouldn’t use under most circumstances. The end result is something like a pool of melted Crayons or plastic, though you can change settings along the way to get something different.
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