Piano Key help =O
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SuperFusion
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SQ
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In photoshop, make a white oval by drawing it or using the shape tool.
Make the background transparent.
Save as a .psd.
Open up Premiere, import the psd.
If Premiere asks how you'd like to import it, say "Merge visable"(Or whichever one that ISN'T "Flatten layers")
Drag the picture of the oval, on the video track above where you want it to go. (I'm assuming you want it over video).
This should give you a big oval over the video.
Stretch the picture's length so it's as long as you want the transformation to be (time-wise).
Select the picture's length, and then go into Motion properties(should be with transparency properties).
The "Start" red square is where your motion begins. Place it where you want.
The "End" red square is where the oval will be by the end of it's length. Place that wherever you want.
With the "End" red box still selected, go down to the little preview right below where you can move your image around(with the red boxes).
It looks like an image that you can resize. It's to the right of all the zoom and rotate options.
Anyway, stretch the corners of the image down there, and skew the picture until it looks like the little line you want it to look like.
Now preview play the motion, and make sure it's what you want.
If it isn't, fix it.
If it is, hit "OK" and render your footage to make sure if the whole thing worked.
If it didn't, let me know.
If it did, thank me.
On a sidenote, Koop only used Magix to edit video and MSPaint for his effects. Go Koop.
Make the background transparent.
Save as a .psd.
Open up Premiere, import the psd.
If Premiere asks how you'd like to import it, say "Merge visable"(Or whichever one that ISN'T "Flatten layers")
Drag the picture of the oval, on the video track above where you want it to go. (I'm assuming you want it over video).
This should give you a big oval over the video.
Stretch the picture's length so it's as long as you want the transformation to be (time-wise).
Select the picture's length, and then go into Motion properties(should be with transparency properties).
The "Start" red square is where your motion begins. Place it where you want.
The "End" red square is where the oval will be by the end of it's length. Place that wherever you want.
With the "End" red box still selected, go down to the little preview right below where you can move your image around(with the red boxes).
It looks like an image that you can resize. It's to the right of all the zoom and rotate options.
Anyway, stretch the corners of the image down there, and skew the picture until it looks like the little line you want it to look like.
Now preview play the motion, and make sure it's what you want.
If it isn't, fix it.
If it is, hit "OK" and render your footage to make sure if the whole thing worked.
If it didn't, let me know.
If it did, thank me.
On a sidenote, Koop only used Magix to edit video and MSPaint for his effects. Go Koop.
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TaranT
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Well, I'm not an Adobe user, so I can't really give you any detail.SuperFusion wrote:I was hoping for a more detailed explanation... ;_;TaranT wrote:I've done some keys, but it's not clear to me what you're after. If you just want the bars to move upward as a group or individually, then what I would do is apply keyframed motion (settings) to the masks.
And it looks like we did not agree on what a piano key was.
Also, you're not saying how you want the oval to transform. Do you want it to squeeze and shrink (morph) into the single line (which appears to be SQ's technique). Or do you want the left side, top and bottom to disappear until just the right side is left (which could be a simple mask+motion).
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XspitfireDemonX
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This should help ^_^
What does this tutorial teach me?
This tutorial is meant to show those who are unfamiliar with Adobe Photoshop how to do a simple shape morphing technique for a very useful effect. No former knowledge of Photoshop is needed, however some experience with Adobe Premiere is needed.
What’s an example of this effect?
A good example of this effect would have to be Koop’s “Euphoria” video. Towards the beginning he created a circle and morphed into a line to create an interesting synching effect. This is not the exact way Koop did this, but you will get the same result with some work ^_^. It looks something like this…
OK, how do I start?
Start out by opening Photoshop and creating a new document by clicking File> New. And scrolling down on presets until you see NSTC DV 720x480. Use something similar to this for the rest of the settings (be sure you have a transparent background)…
What about the shape?
The shape is any color, size or shape you want to put over the video, just make sure its over a transparent background. To get something close to Koop’s effect we can create a circle. To do this, click the Circular Marquee tool, hold down shift, and drag across the canvas until you have the size you want. Right click on the circle and select Stroke using these settings (to make the line thicker simply make increase the pixel number)…
Now what?
So now we just save the file in an easy to find place (My Documents). Click File> Save as, name it something like Shape_01, and use something similar to these settings (make sure it’s a .PSD file)…
So how’s that gonna be “morphed”?
So crack open Adobe Premiere and create a new project with default settings. Import the footage you wish to have the “morphed” circle in. Now click File> Import and navigate to the shape file. When you import you’ll get a message asking how you want to import, use something like this…
The important thing here is to choose any option but Merged Layers…that will ruin the effect we’re trying to get. (from here on out details will depend on your version of Premiere, I’m using Premiere Pro 7) Now drag the shape over the clip you want (for example, if I want the shape to be on a clip of Cowboy Bebop, I would put the Bebop clip on Video Track 1, and the shape file on Video Track 2). Highlight the shape file and click the Effect Controls tab on the right side of the monitor window. Hokay, this gets a bit tricky, but bare with me. You want to distort the shape as much as possible. This means height and width of the shape. So focus on the Scale Height and Scale Width controls. I’ll start with height, click the timer clock image on the right side of the words “Scale Height”. This enables key frames. These key frames tell where to start and stop increasing or decreasing the height. Once you’ve enabled key frames, go to the end of the clip and hit the “Add/Remove key frame” button (the little white dot to the right of “Scale Height”). Increase the height (if you can). Do the same thing with width, except decrease the width until you have a line. From there its easy flying. Speed up or slow down the clip to get the timing right, mess with different shapes, colors, whatever. There is a lot you can do with this, this tutorial is a very crappy, quick example.
What about different versions of Premiere?
As for different versions of Premiere, it’s the same thing. Mess with the Height and Width of it and you’ll get the same effect ^_^.
If there is any error, please tell me.
What does this tutorial teach me?
This tutorial is meant to show those who are unfamiliar with Adobe Photoshop how to do a simple shape morphing technique for a very useful effect. No former knowledge of Photoshop is needed, however some experience with Adobe Premiere is needed.
What’s an example of this effect?
A good example of this effect would have to be Koop’s “Euphoria” video. Towards the beginning he created a circle and morphed into a line to create an interesting synching effect. This is not the exact way Koop did this, but you will get the same result with some work ^_^. It looks something like this…
OK, how do I start?
Start out by opening Photoshop and creating a new document by clicking File> New. And scrolling down on presets until you see NSTC DV 720x480. Use something similar to this for the rest of the settings (be sure you have a transparent background)…
What about the shape?
The shape is any color, size or shape you want to put over the video, just make sure its over a transparent background. To get something close to Koop’s effect we can create a circle. To do this, click the Circular Marquee tool, hold down shift, and drag across the canvas until you have the size you want. Right click on the circle and select Stroke using these settings (to make the line thicker simply make increase the pixel number)…
Now what?
So now we just save the file in an easy to find place (My Documents). Click File> Save as, name it something like Shape_01, and use something similar to these settings (make sure it’s a .PSD file)…
So how’s that gonna be “morphed”?
So crack open Adobe Premiere and create a new project with default settings. Import the footage you wish to have the “morphed” circle in. Now click File> Import and navigate to the shape file. When you import you’ll get a message asking how you want to import, use something like this…
The important thing here is to choose any option but Merged Layers…that will ruin the effect we’re trying to get. (from here on out details will depend on your version of Premiere, I’m using Premiere Pro 7) Now drag the shape over the clip you want (for example, if I want the shape to be on a clip of Cowboy Bebop, I would put the Bebop clip on Video Track 1, and the shape file on Video Track 2). Highlight the shape file and click the Effect Controls tab on the right side of the monitor window. Hokay, this gets a bit tricky, but bare with me. You want to distort the shape as much as possible. This means height and width of the shape. So focus on the Scale Height and Scale Width controls. I’ll start with height, click the timer clock image on the right side of the words “Scale Height”. This enables key frames. These key frames tell where to start and stop increasing or decreasing the height. Once you’ve enabled key frames, go to the end of the clip and hit the “Add/Remove key frame” button (the little white dot to the right of “Scale Height”). Increase the height (if you can). Do the same thing with width, except decrease the width until you have a line. From there its easy flying. Speed up or slow down the clip to get the timing right, mess with different shapes, colors, whatever. There is a lot you can do with this, this tutorial is a very crappy, quick example.
What about different versions of Premiere?
As for different versions of Premiere, it’s the same thing. Mess with the Height and Width of it and you’ll get the same effect ^_^.
If there is any error, please tell me.
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TaranT
- Joined: Wed May 16, 2001 11:20 pm
Embarrassing...this scene is from Euphoria. Which I've only watched for the third time now. 
Anyway, I'm not sure your tutorial will work. Have you tried it? This effect isn't what I'd call a morph, at least not by simple scaling. The more-curved sections expand away leaving behind the mostly vertical bar that straightens itself before stepping. It might be better to work this as two separate effects that are initially overlapping. (Although why anyone would want to copy Koop's effect is another tale.)
Anyway, I'm not sure your tutorial will work. Have you tried it? This effect isn't what I'd call a morph, at least not by simple scaling. The more-curved sections expand away leaving behind the mostly vertical bar that straightens itself before stepping. It might be better to work this as two separate effects that are initially overlapping. (Although why anyone would want to copy Koop's effect is another tale.)
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XspitfireDemonX
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