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moving letterbox effect?

Postby Up In Flamez » Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:22 pm

hey, ive seen some amvs with the letterbox effect, except the letterbox is moving. like in Einhänder's 'Naruto's World' at the beginning it shows the letterbox moving to a certain location

anyone know how to do this?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:38 pm

Keyframe text from an image editing program (like photoshop) with the alpha channel enabled so just the text is visible.
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Postby Up In Flamez » Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:53 pm

sry, but im not really familar with keyframing and also what did u mean by text?

do u need text for a letterbox to move or something? cuz i never mentioned text....
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Postby Qyot27 » Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:42 pm

If you mean an effect where the letterboxing seems to 'grow' to make a 4:3 image into 16:9 or vice versa, then (using Adobe Premiere 6.5) it can be done by producing a Black Video (under File->New) and then using precise Motion settings to position it. I'm sure there are other, more efficient ways to do it, of course, but that's how I did it on the last piece I edited.
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Postby Up In Flamez » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:30 pm

well right now im using premiere 6.0 and could u explain some of the "precise motion settings"?

really appreciate it
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Postby Up In Flamez » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:19 pm

THX Qyot27 u rock! i got it working! :D

i know this might not be mentioned in the title, but also in Einhander's video there is a scene with something like the portal transitions from sony vegas. Einhander said in the video description that adobe premiere was used

can anyone maybe help me on this too? :lol:

thx!
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Postby Qyot27 » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:21 pm

This is best explained if you're looking at Premiere, of course.

You'll need to create a Black Video clip (or have a Black-colored still image) and have two instances of it on the timeline, both on higher tracks than the clip you want to letterbox (i.e. if the clip is on Track 1A, use Tracks 2 and 3 for the two Black Video clips).

When you go to the Motion settings...(right-click on the Black Video clip, Video options ->Motion)

A) Position both Start and End frames above or below (both above or both below) the Visible Area.

B) Find out what position you want the black bar to be. This is expressed as a value on a Cartesian plane, as far as I can tell. Specifically, it's the vertical (Y) setting (at Info #1 is at X, Y). Both Start and End frames need to have the same horizontal (X) value.

To quickly set values, click on or the nearest you can to the vertical line close to Time for the Start frame and then enter your settings in the boxes below it; the vertical line at the end of that same timescale is for the End frame (this is much easier to do with the End frame since it doesn't actually require clicking on the timescale).

C) The Start frame should be off the visible area entirely, and the End frame is where you fill in the height percentage. This takes a bit of tweaking to get set right. That's all there is to it.

D) Repeat this process for the other bar, making sure you just use the inverse values (1 instead of -1, or -20 instead of 20, etc.) of the first to position it. That way, it looks uniform.
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Postby Up In Flamez » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:12 am

thax a lot for the quick tutorial Qyot27!

but could u also help me with the portal thing?

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