3...2...1... Countdown clip

dsanders wrote on 11/18/2002, 4:22 PM

Does anybody know where I can get one of the 3... 2... 1... countdown video clips like they show before a movie. I'm also looking for any kind of clip that that they might show before a movie - i.e., "Now featuring...", "Quite please..." That sort of stuff. I'm looking for an old time movie look, but anything would be helpful.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Don Sanders

Comments

salad wrote on 11/18/2002, 5:44 PM

I think there's a tutorial on how to make one of those countdown clips, it looked pretty easy. I think that was on the Creative Cow site???
I have a couple different countdowns I copied off my MGI Video Wave content CD, one of which is the "old" film style look....complete with scratches and markings on the film. Know anyone who has Video wave?

wcoxe1 wrote on 11/18/2002, 8:34 PM

I have that old clip, and a modern one. Drop your eddress and I'll eMail it to you.

I'm not sure about the copyright on this, so use with caution. I think that it is OK, or I wouldn't be offering it.

Tyler.Durden wrote on 11/18/2002, 9:51 PM

Hi Don,

You can also make your own Academy-style leader/countdown in Vegas...

I made one using a couple of circles and crosshairs, the clock-wipe and the text generator.

For more movie-house style concepts check out Turner Classic Movies... great promos and trailers, and of course great movies. A good website too, for movie-art themes and styles.

HTH, MPH

Cooldraft wrote on 11/18/2002, 10:00 PM

Can you send them to looolol@hotmail.com?

crystalline wrote on 11/18/2002, 11:45 PM

Hi,

I would like samples of those countdown clips also please. If you could, could you send it to fliglam@yahoo.com

Thanks

crystalline

dsanders wrote on 11/19/2002, 8:33 AM

Thanks for all of the quick responses. My email is dshome01@bellatlantic.net

craftech wrote on 11/19/2002, 9:13 AM

wcoxe1,
Would you e-mail me one as well? I would really appreciate it. Thanks,
John
craftech@hvc.rr.com

wcoxe1 wrote on 11/19/2002, 10:09 AM

Slowly, but surely. I'm between classes, and it may take a while. I'm SUPPOSED to me making a test to give my students, and you can see what is catching my interest, instead. I'll get it done today, I think.

Again, a reminder, I don't know about the copyright issue with this, so I am sharing IDEAS with you. Use with caution, please.

newbe wrote on 11/19/2002, 10:23 AM

musicvid10 wrote on 11/19/2002, 4:01 PM

Assume you have seen this one:
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/products/productnews/vegasnews.asp

Also, there's a good "old" one on the Video Factory content cd.

Chienworks wrote on 11/19/2002, 6:56 PM

I threw this together in a few minutes using a couple of drawings i made in Micrografx Windows Draw and the text media generator in Vegas. I used the clock wipe transition to change the background from each second to the next, then used a film effects filter to make it look old.

Feel free to make whatever use of it you wish. It's WMV, 3Mbps two-pass encoding, 640x480 30fps, about 600Kb.

http://www.chienworks.com/media/countdown-3.wmv

salad wrote on 11/19/2002, 8:03 PM

Almost forgot about the VFactory CD. I'll check that out.

Nice job C.Works!

Thanks for the TCM tip Marty!

I used one of the countdowns recently. Anticipating my(large group of friends)audience's reaction to the included countdown....Yep! they started counting down out loud togehter. .........NINE........EIGHT....At about 6, I sped(time compressed)up the rest of the countdown. 654321 bam! start the damn movie.
They got a kick out of it. I swear I've seen this done before....(not my original thinking?)

Definitley picking up speed in the forums as well!

mweber wrote on 11/19/2002, 10:28 PM

Here's an old countdown, apparently free to the public:

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=leader01

There's lots of cool old film footage you can grab from the Internet Archive Moving Images site. http://webdev.archive.org/movies/movies.php

Enjoy!

chriselkins wrote on 11/20/2002, 1:37 PM

Very nice countdown, Chien, but don't forget.....at the start of "2" you get the "beep" and black. There's only a frame of "2". There is no 1 or 0.

...yeah, I know...everyone's a critic!

Chienworks wrote on 11/20/2002, 1:40 PM

Chris: correct. However, you can do that yourself when you drop it into your project. For those who don't want that, they can do whatever modifications they do want. :)