What new effects have you been experimenting with?

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What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby kablay » Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:04 pm

This forum seems to have a lot of 'help' topics, but the description says "and discussion," so oh well... XD Anyway, I've been experimenting with patterns in effects that go with the patterns in the music, and layering effects to go with the layers in music. I've also been experimenting with simpler effects (like just adjusting color saturation and contrast to give a different look). And I've also been using keyframing a lot... It's especially useful when transitions will totally mess up your entire clip (like with event/pan crop and velocity changes). I have Sony Vegas 8 btw c:
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby Slash » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:59 pm

i'm messing around with glows and shiny stuff =p tho i have a feeling this should be in the General AMV category.
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby kablay » Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:28 pm

Slash wrote:i'm messing around with glows and shiny stuff =p tho i have a feeling this should be in the General AMV category.


Really? Am I allowed to post the same topic there? Or do I have to delete this one first?
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby mirkosp » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:48 am

Actually I think this is the right section to discuss about it.

As for me, I've been toying around with some typography as per the last couple days... not exactly effects, but...
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby Magnus » Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:13 pm

Mostly layer-blending, combined with rotoscoping.
funstuff I think.
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby NS » Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:04 pm

I don't use effects in my videos very often, but I toy with a lot of masking and subtle changes that kind of just add something extra to scenes or whatever.
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby Enigma » Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:46 am

Cookie Cutters :amv: .
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby Vax » Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:38 am

ZetZu wrote:Mostly layer-blending, combined with rotoscoping.
funstuff I think.


That, minus the rotoscoping. But yeah, it is fun stuff.
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby xPiikanyaa » Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:29 am

I've been messing around with the Gradient Map effect. Like, making a duplicate layer of a clip, changing the bottom layer to grayscale, then masking the character on the top layer and turning them purple or something :)
It takes a while though, since I do all my masking in Wax, rendering the clip with a green screen, then importing into Vegas and chroma-keying out the background :?
I've also been experimenting with borders and stuff. Like lowering the saturation, and using the Cookie Cutter to make it transparent round the edges, then putting a grunge backround or something behind it.
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby Niotex » Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:29 pm

Proper 60fps interpolating.
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby requiett » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:17 am

I've experimented quite a bit with FX in my vids, primarily with 3rd party After Effects plugins. These are some prime examples of techniques you won't find in other videos, at least as far as I know.



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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby Shinnie04 » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:20 am

Screwing around with render settings so that the rendered video is somewhat corrupt, full of glitches and errors. Sometimes converting it numerous times can give some nice results. I then video capture it and play around with the messed up sections. At first it was unintentional but the idea hit me that some of these errors that came out from faulty conversions and renders looked quite appealing.

I guess it isn't really new to me but I'm trying out new things with frame by frame rotoscoping styled techniques.
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Re: What new effects have you been experimenting with?

Postby xPiikanyaa » Fri Dec 04, 2009 10:58 am

I've been trying to get Vegas to render a video in decent quality for once. :cry:
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