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Postby salemshady » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:26 pm

dang it.. i just keep coming up with questions!! heres one more!! and this time it'll be the last for the night
with cyberlink powerdirector i could use images to come up with cheap versions of lip sync.. i'd just put them up on the timeline with their mouth closed and open.. u get the drift right?
but i cant do that in vegas!
help!!!!!
i promise... this is the last for the night
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Postby salemshady » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:03 am

gosh ok.. that was dumb... importing pictures was as easy as the video.. i dont know why it didnt work the last time on vegas.. anyway.. back to the earthquake effect! i cant find the scrubber!!!! i have everything else on teh timeline except teh scrubber. how do you activate the scrubber?
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Postby CrackTheSky » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:14 am

Ok, the scrubber is right here in the pan/crop window...it's a little hidden...

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Alright, effect-ing, here goes. Open your effect window; in this case I'll be using a simple black-and-white effect, but the concept permeates to every effect. Here's the default window:

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In order for the effect to work on your video, you have to slide the "Blend amount" to the right. The more you do, the more black and white your picture will become. Now, once you do this, a keyframe will appear beneath your scrubber, just like in the pan/crop window. Except there's already a keyframe there to begin with, as you can see. In this case the keyframe's parameters have been changed; before you slid the bar to the right the keyframe marked the point in the video where the effect was inserted; problem was that you hadn't slid the blend amount bar to the right, so the video didn't change. If you slide the bar all the way to the right so that the blend amount reads "1.000", then the keyframe's parameters have been changed to a black-and-white filter blended all the way.

Make sense? Probably not; it's not really important to understand, just so you know why a keyframe is already in place when you open the effect window.

If you want the effect to stay the way it is for the entire clip, all you have to do is open the effect window, make it so the effect looks the way you want, and right-click on the keyframe and select "Hold". This will hold the effect's parameters you've determined until the next keyframe.

If you want your effects to gradually change over the course of a clip, here's what you do. Let's say you want a clip to start off black-and-white, and by the end you want it to smoothly transition back to color. This is how you'd go about making that happen:

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And there you have it! As you move the scrubber from left to right or right to left on the effect window's timeline, you should notice a smooth transition from black-and-white to color or vice-versa, depending on which way you're moving the scrubber. If you change your mind later and want the transition from black-and-white to color to be faster, you can simply click and drag the second keyframe to any other point on the timeline.

Don't hesitate to ask any more questions!
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Postby CrackTheSky » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:52 pm

And just so we're clear...

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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:31 pm

lol.. that was easy! i could swear i looked for a good 20 minutes to find me the scrubber and i found nothing.. and i was poking around the corner just where it was .. but no luck.. its just so funny now looking back at how much i struggled.. thanks a lot !!!!
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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:37 pm

its about vegas again: i rendered a video and then imported it back again on the vegas timeline. to my surprise... all teh effects and transitions came back on the timeline with the video i imported! how did that happen? the reason i do that is so that there arent too many effects and transitions on the timeline because that slows my computer down
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Postby CrackTheSky » Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:51 pm

Logically the effects shouldn't show up because you rendered it to what I assume is an .avi file. So I have no idea, I've never heard of that before.

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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:23 pm

exactly my thoughts!
but somehow all teh clips that are together come with teh extensions that were there before i split and deleted it.
anyway... i think i am trying too hard for my first amv! but i was wondering... how do you plan out which clips to put where in ur amv? do you have it written down so there is a better plan? because i have so many clips in my mind.. i keep adding and deleting the clips from the timeline and i am going nowhere!
i guess what i want to know is how do you keep things so organized?
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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:39 pm

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I hope i got the url right! but as u can see in the picture, the scrubber is not even hidden.. infact its not even there.. no wonder it took me forever to find it! i bet there is a way to activate the scrubber! spill me the magic beans
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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:46 pm

crackthesky!! the video effects!! i finally got it to work the way i want.. except i am still having problems changing the clip gradually.. but i think i'll figure it out eventually.. dont bother going deeper into it and all...just tell me how to find the scrubber.. i still cant find it .. its not even hidden there .. i think i somehow hit the wrong button and deactivated it! also.. the media pool! its gone.. i am having to put clips on teh timeline using explorer.. any idea how i can get back the media pool thing on vegas?
thanx
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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:52 pm

salemshady wrote:crackthesky!! the video effects!! i finally got it to work the way i want.. except i am still having problems changing the clip gradually.. but i think i'll figure it out eventually.. dont bother going deeper into it and all...just tell me how to find the scrubber.. i still cant find it .. its not even hidden there .. i think i somehow hit the wrong button and deactivated it! also.. the media pool! its gone.. i am having to put clips on teh timeline using explorer.. any idea how i can get back the media pool thing on vegas?
thanx

i understand how to use the video effects now.. except i still cant find the dang scrubber.. lol
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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:56 pm

i think i have the wrong version of vegas! i have vegas 5.0 !! maybe the scrubber looks like something else! maybe its invisible
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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:08 pm

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there!! i think i found the scrubber but it looks a lot different from the scrubber you showed me .. probably because we are using different versions of vegas! but i swear i finally got my clip to turn from black and white to color in transition!! and i did that using that keyframe like icon as scrubber just like u said !! so its got to be the scrubber!! dont you think?
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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:10 pm

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there!! i think i found the scrubber but it looks a lot different from the scrubber you showed me .. probably because we are using different versions of vegas! but i swear i finally got my clip to turn from black and white to color in transition!! and i did that using that keyframe like icon as scrubber just like u said !! so its got to be the scrubber!! dont you think?[/quote]
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Postby salemshady » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:12 pm

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there!! i think i found the scrubber but it looks a lot different from the scrubber you showed me .. probably because we are using different versions of vegas! but i swear i finally got my clip to turn from black and white to color in transition!! and i did that using that keyframe like icon as scrubber just like u said !! so its got to be the scrubber!! dont you think?[/quote][/quote]
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