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Postby AimoAio » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:23 am

Hmm well I was on youtube as usual,looking at others amv and I saw this one which had a nice effect.It's like darkened in black but with a section thats whiter than the rest.In the comments parts,somebody mentioned a spotlight effect and the person had said they used Vegas.What effect is this?And how'd I do it?
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Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:39 am

that sounds like one of the basic drop in effects it's found under "bump map"
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Postby AimoAio » Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:15 pm

it's this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kro5ZtDOJ7I

what's the effect at 0:22?and 0:52?I've never seen it before but it looks really cool!
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Postby LivingFlame » Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:27 pm

*Echoes JaddziaDax*

Yea, it's the spotlight effect. On the Video FX tab, it's under Bump Map.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:01 pm

actually they use that effect to varying degrees through the whole video
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Postby uchihaclan13 » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:34 pm

I have a question that's probably already been answered... haven't really looked through all of this thread yet...

I usually render my AVIs uncompressed and export them to Virtual Dub Mod. I'm doing a project at the moment where all of the anime sizes are practically 720x480.
My problem is when I render the AVI out, I get the black bars all around the anime and it basically gets smaller than what it used to be. I'd give you a screencap, but I can't. Screencap right from there, unless I use FFD. Hopefully u understand what I mean...it starts out big, but it renders out smaller than b4. I want to keep it it's normal size.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:17 pm

no anime is supposed to be 702x480 thats just an ntsc standard so it displays properly on your TV, then your dvd player will resize it to the proper size.

you should use avisynth to crop off the borders and resize the video to the correct aspect ratio.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:17 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:no anime is supposed to be 720x480 thats just an ntsc standard so it displays properly on your TV, then your dvd player will resize it to the proper size.

you should use avisynth to crop off the borders and resize the video to the correct aspect ratio.


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Postby AimoAio » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:11 am

Thanks!I'll try experimenting it now,yous are really helpful by the way,I don't know what would happen if I didnt find this site lol..
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Postby JaddziaDax » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:16 am

perhaps stalk me on the tube instead? O.o
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Postby AimoAio » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:29 am

Might have to then I'm afraid.Everytime I leave this website to go work on my video another problem pops up and I'm having trouble fixing it again.

I'm masking this part of a clip where it's moving,so I know to change the anchors around with the keyframes but the thing is I DONT want the image to keep moving about,I want it fixed in 1 spot,but the clip I'm masking has the image moving about,is there a way to stop it from moving about?
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Postby AimoAio » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:15 am

wait nevermind I think I've got it,just take a screenshot and use that!I'll try that out
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Postby Kumatora » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:53 am

I figured out to move a layer and shrink it and such, but I have a new problem as well.

I take one video layer(the top one), shrink it, and move it to the bottom left. That way, I can use it as a reference. The only problem is that layer sometimes will and will not appear, even when there is nothing on the second layer.

Is it because the video is a WMV?

I've also noticed that the video and any storyboard pictures that I've made will say they're offline when I restore the window from it being flattened.

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Postby JaddziaDax » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:23 pm

the offline thing should go away after vegas processes it for a second...

as for the boards you cannot see, you have used the scroll function on the right, correct?
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Postby Kumatora » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:01 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:the offline thing should go away after vegas processes it for a second...

as for the boards you cannot see, you have used the scroll function on the right, correct?

That explains the offline thing.

I hate to sound like an idiot, but you mean the vertical scrolling, right? I don't have any issues with that. It's just that the top layer won't appear unless I play the video from the beginning.
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