1st 2 Minutes of Star Wars, Done All in Vegas

Jonathan Neal schrieb am 19.09.2006 um 20:20 Uhr
Well, we talked about making the Star Wars text in Vegas without any third party plug-ins, so here you go. The main file, tutorial_star.wars.scrolling.text.zip, uses a child *.veg file to load the text. There are no external graphics; it all happens in Vegas and it all stays in Vegas. By the way, if you have an audio copy of the Star Wars theme song it would fit perfectly - i've now included a sample WMV and the song plays there :)

Download the VEG

Kommentare

Jonathan Neal schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 09:55 Uhr
Here is a WMV movie of the effect. Remember, NOTHING outside of what is included with Sony Vegas was used to create this, and there are NO external files either.

Watch the WMV Movie
cbrillow schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 10:47 Uhr
Very nicely done! Thanks for sharing.
Grazie schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 11:30 Uhr
Great stuff Jojo! I got the shock of me life when the COLOUR bars appeared - larf!!

Grazie

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apit34356 schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 12:02 Uhr
nice scroll, like the ending with the vegas6 colors, with lens effect.
craftech schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 12:41 Uhr
Thanks for doing that and sharing it with us. It looks great!

John
farss schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 12:45 Uhr
Yes, well done, although at the end I was waiting for the toaster to appear.
winrockpost schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 13:11 Uhr
does your boss know what you are really doing when you work furiously at your computer :)
TheHappyFriar schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 13:48 Uhr
"SONY VEGAS" is filled with black? Wasn't it transparent in the movies (haven't seen it i na while)

Very nice though! Excelent work!
garo schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 15:43 Uhr
The .veg files will not open for me - version 6.0d "unsupported format"
David Arbogast schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 16:01 Uhr
very nice! and amusing too.
TheHappyFriar schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 16:34 Uhr
it's a v7 file.
Tim Stannard schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 16:59 Uhr
""SONY VEGAS" is filled with black? Wasn't it transparent in the movies (haven't seen it i na while)"
I only own Movie Studio (and v6 at that - however the upgrade offer makes upgrading to full Vegas 7 +DVDA4 a must) but I would have thought this could easily achieved by setting the colour of the font to transparent rather than black.

However, as I can't read vegs it may not have been done this way and so might not be possible.
JJKizak schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 17:06 Uhr
That's the best one i've seen yet, the real small disappearing text was excellent.
JJK
dibbkd schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 17:28 Uhr
How did Lucas manage to accomplish this 30 years ago without Vegas 7???

:)

Very nice BTW, and what are you trying to tell us here, that Sony doens't need a better titler? jk

:)
TheHappyFriar schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 18:10 Uhr
it could be easily filled, that's why Iwas asking. I honestly don't remember. :)
WayneM schrieb am 20.09.2006 um 18:39 Uhr
Very nice example. I thought I knew a bit about Vegas but it took me some time to find the track motion that was doing the heavy lifting with the text plane. I wasn't aware of the changes you could make to the geometry. Very cool!

And thanks!
garo schrieb am 21.09.2006 um 05:42 Uhr
Could someone possibly make it into a version 6.0 .veg ? - I can't afford 7 at this time.
((Garo))
Stonefield schrieb am 21.09.2006 um 07:03 Uhr
Change the text to yellow and add in the stars in the background and ya pretty much got it dead on....

And oh yes, the STAR WARS logo at the beginning wasn't transparent, it was filled with black....

....I really need to get a life.
Jonathan Neal schrieb am 21.09.2006 um 07:20 Uhr
Ahem, they are there. Perhaps your version of Windows Media Player isn't picking them up very well, my friend had the same problem. Have you seen the Veg? I used a noise texture to create the stars, they look dead on.

Actually, that is the color of the text for the new trilogy, however, just for you, in an hour or so I will render out a version with text OT colored and the stars brighter.
Steve Mann schrieb am 21.09.2006 um 08:07 Uhr
I almost expected to see the Vegas box fly into the view.

One tiny little nit - "Firepower" is one word.
garo schrieb am 21.09.2006 um 08:35 Uhr
Sorry for redundancy but can someone make a .veg for version 6.0d?
TIA!! ((Garo))
Jonathan Neal schrieb am 21.09.2006 um 08:41 Uhr
As I told you in my email, Garo, I will try to get one published tonight. It's 1:40am here and I've had some distractions. One main distraction being that today was my birthday.

UPDATE: I've been kidnapped by a group who call themselves 'friends'. These 'friends' tell me that I must observe a said tradition which they refer to as 'hang out', where I will be forced to watch Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, and whoever their other idol gods are.

In the meantime, here is an updated sample WMV with an Original Trilogy color scheme and brighter stars. I even added an unnoticeable film grain to really seal the deal. Don't say I don't care!

Download Star Wars Crawler: OT Edition
garo schrieb am 21.09.2006 um 09:16 Uhr
It was the .veg file for 6.0 rather than Vegas 7.0 I was asking for - the wmv works fine.
apit34356 schrieb am 21.09.2006 um 11:03 Uhr
Jonathan Neal, Happy Birthday!