This may be a n00b question, but i'm really curious;

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:25 am

I consistently see an effect in a lot of AMV's today.

The effect is basically when a piano plays, or during a drumbeat or something of that sort, a rectangle will cut out a portion of the screen, and another video will be in this rectangle, or the rectangle will just tint that part of the screen, and the rectangle will flit all over the screen as to fit the high/low pitch of the piano/drums.

How do you pull this off? I don't think it's transistions, and i think i heard someone saying it can be done in premiere so..? unless he was mistaken and stupid, or something.

Poetic_Kaos · Post by **Poetic_Kaos** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:07 am

What you have found is the base of a ton of effects. Basically what is being done is a Clip filter (Can be found in the Transform folder in Premiere 7.0) is being applied to a video segment. You tweak the Clip filter to your desired parameters then overlay the modified video over another video clip.

Shameless Plug, my video does something similar (1:11-1:37).

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Talvius · Post by **Talvius** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:29 am

have seen this to and i want to know if we can do that with WMM XP?

Undertow · Post by **Undertow** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:48 am

Talvius wrote:have seen this to and i want to know if we can do that with WMM XP?

No, i don't think that is possible, although you might be able to create something similar with the help of photoshop, but that would mean you'll have to take one hell of a lot of stills and edit them.

But i think the only ones that can do it are Premiere, Vegas and After Effects. I'm not absolutly sure of it, and there may be others, but these are the ones i can come up with

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:55 am

Talvius wrote:have seen this to and i want to know if we can do that with WMM XP?

you can do it in avisynth (then import it to wmm)
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Bote · Post by **Bote** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:09 am

Go to "Transparency" and move the white dots to make a desired shape. This works, but a MUCH better way is to make black & white images in Photoshop and then use them in Transparency with "Image Matte". This way you can have better looking shapes (I like to make the edges of the shapes feathered a bit)

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:41 am

Poetic_Kaos wrote:Basically what is being done is a Clip filter (Can be found in the Transform folder in Premiere 7.0) is being applied to a video segment. You tweak the Clip filter to your desired parameters then overlay the modified video over another video clip.

If you're talking about Premiere Pro, I'm forced to wholeheartedly suggest the Garbage Matte (found in the Keying category of effects) instead of Clip. It does everything Clip can and more (can isolate any quadrilateral, not just rectangles), and it does it without making you deal with a background fill -- everything you crop out simply goes transparent.

bum · Post by **bum** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:47 pm

Vegas. Insert two videos on seperate tracks. Apply 3dle to top track. Ajust two sliders.

So simple, yet to powerfull.

otbwavelength · Post by **otbwavelength** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:14 pm

Ok, so both the garbage matte and the clip effects are ONLY available in premiere 7.0?

Because i have 6.5....

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:27 pm

No, they're both in 6.5 as well. Though the Garbage Matte might not be called that; it might just be four draggable handles on a thumbnail of the video in the Transparency window. That's what it was in 5.1. Much less helpful than the Pro version.