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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.

Tags: compositing, Digital Juice, gradients, reflection, track motion

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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Tags: background, bump map, compositing, generated media, transitions