Its Senior Editor D. Eric Franks has created another Sony Vegas tutorial for the Digital Juice website. This time, he combines an animation from one of DJ’s Motion Designer Toolkit, Vegas track motion, and the Ray FX from Sony Vegas Pro 9. Of course, you can use any basic animation or still image for the base if you don’t have the animation used in the tutorial. And if you’re on a previous version of Vegas, the track motion Glow or 2D Shadow options will provide something at least similar to the Ray FX.
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.
In the world of hand-drawn animation, an artist would begin a project by drawing several key frames — single images to represent a change in direction or appearance. Once this rough sketch was approved, he (or more often an assistant) would “fill in the rest” — drawing each individual frame needed to get from Point A to Point B. And now we have programs like Vegas which will also “assist” us in filling in from Point A to Point B through the use of keyframes.
November 14th, 2008 by Rob Strobbe | No Comments |
Want to try something kind of silly and fun? Youtube user richw is the man for the job. Little Rich shows you how to use Sony Vegas’ Spherize FX to give your actor a more alien look in order to create…well…an alien.
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