Probably Easy Effect I'm Having Trouble With

EleventhAkatsuki · Post by **EleventhAkatsuki** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:34 pm

Hey guys, on Sony Vegas, how do you do that thing (I know, specific, right?) where the clips flash in time to the music? I can get it to flicker white, but that's an option to make the video look old-style, I don't know how to do the "black flash" effect in time to the beat. You all know what I'm taking about, right?

prYzm · Post by **prYzm** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:06 pm

ummm. i assume u just mean where the screen blanks out for like 1-3 frames. if it is, theres 2 diff ways u can do it. 1 is to put 2 copies of ur clip over top of each other then crop off the end of one clip so that it ends slightly before the start of another..... bad explanation. k look at it this way

for arguments sake im assuming ur using 25 fps (PAL) footage as it has a generic 25 frames and is easier to explain, if its in 29.97(NTSC) fps the concept is exactly the same but i cbf doing the math

your clip goes from 0:25:15 - 0:26:15, a 1 second clip. put 2 copies down in the same place (on diff layers or same layer it doesnt matter). ur beat sound is at 0:26:00 so since u have 2 exact copies of the same clip drag one so it goes from 0:25:15 - 0:25:24 and then drag the start of the second clip so that it goes from 0:26:01 - 0:26:15 this created a 1 frame gap in ur image so that for 1/25th of a second the screen will blank creating that 'flicker' effect that ppl use with beats.

the other option is to go into paint, create a black screen. save ur file (for the purpose of just a black screen it doesnt matter what u save it as, if ur after something that only covers part of it so u can still use stuff in the background, go to my question about importing vegas images that rapture so kindly answered)

so u have a .jpg of a black screen (oh ya make sure u set ur image size to whatever ur video footage is, depending on what u made ur clip sizes to be.)
go to the explorer tab in vegas find where u saved it. should be a yourimage.jpg file there, right click on it and say add to project media. then when u select it under ur project media, add it to the layer ABOVE whatever ur trying to flash it on, eg ur audio may be on layer one then ur video is on layer 2. create another layer and put it between, so u now have blank layer 2 video is layer 3.

go to ur 0:26:00 mark where the beat is. and put ur 'black picture' there it will create a very long bar, i think when u put images into vegas the default time length for them is 5 seconds (not sure if thats exactly right but somewhere about there) just crop ur image down to 1 frame (or 3 or w/e depending on how long u want it blanked).

after that if u decide even tho u want the screen to 'black flash' as u call it for a beat but u still want to be able to see ur image, on ur black screen u can drag the opacity down to like 75% then u can still just see ur image in the background but u still get the 'black' effect of the screen darkening. its really up to u how u do it, both methods work, personally i prefer inputting an image from paint or adobe, because then u can always copy and paste it if u have like 3 beats in a row. much easier to work with in the long run.

NS · Post by NS » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:22 pm

Quickly fade to black in one clip and Fade in from black on the one afetr wards... don't do it across the whole clip.. just pretty quickly.

Kevmaster · Post by **Kevmaster** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:59 am

Use Black Media Generator?

EleventhAkatsuki · Post by **EleventhAkatsuki** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:27 pm

How do you do the effect at 0:06-0:16 in this AMV?

And the effects at 1:28 as well.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:13 pm

don't you mean this video?

and the answer is masking (frame by frame editing) and a lot of patience

EleventhAkatsuki · Post by **EleventhAkatsuki** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:26 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:don't you mean this video?

and the answer is masking (frame by frame editing) and a lot of patience

Could you run me through exactly how to do that? Not quite sure I get it that well...

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:01 pm

EleventhAkatsuki wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:don't you mean this video?

and the answer is masking (frame by frame editing) and a lot of patience
Could you run me through exactly how to do that? Not quite sure I get it that well...

JaddziaDax wrote:"Masking" or "Rotoscoping" is the term youre looking for

this is how you do it in vegas:

pretty much you just have to be more precise with the anchors and you will have the characters cut out

you can also do it with photoshop... and after effects... but i dont have screencaps for them O:

and for the lipsync you combo that with this

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:13 pm

hahahahahahha

zomg
thanks you made my day XD

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:02 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:hahahahahahha

zomg
thanks you made my day XD

You have the amazing powers to answer questions vicariously.