Video Effect Question

[GrooTheWanderer419]

In the music video Bohemian Rapsody at 1 point it has the image of the singers head and then it copies/stretches it to the right making the copies bright blue and getting smaller. Kind of like the funnel transition in Premiere. But still missing something. I've played with Ulead, Premiere, VideoFX Transitions and I cant find out how to do that. Anyone help?

[klinky]

Something like this is really simple with a single image, but a moving image could be rather hard. I forgot if he has lipsynching going on @ the moment.

Single image: Import image to photoshop and then erase the background. Basically isolate the character. Save as a PSD file. Import the file into Premiere and put it on the timeline. Goto the clips Transperancy settings and set the Key Type to Alpha Channel. Apply a the "Transform" effect to the clip. Now make copies of the clip(Crtl+c) and then paste them on tracks above the original clip.

Look up keyframing in the Premiere help file if you don't know what it is. Using keyframing + transform you can move each copy move on it's own.

To get color changes you can add the Color Balance effect to each clip and adjust the colors to give it a certain hue. The HSL effect might be better at this actually.

Moving image: would be a bit harder. You'd have to split it into frames and repeat the steps above to the point of setting the transperancy settings. I would export a RGBA AVI(using huffYUV) of the frames with whatever part you want removed. Then importing that AVI and continuing on with the rest of the instructions using the imported AVI as the clip.

[klinky]

I should probably have said "video" instead of "moving image". Because the still image will move across the screen, but it will be a still image. The video would move across the screen, but it would be a video, like say if you had moving lips for the character.