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[r]Evolution wrote on 10/17/2006, 4:49 PM
Looking at the people that are in the video... I would say it was (at least) partly done in Serious Magic Ultra.
prairiedogpics wrote on 10/17/2006, 5:18 PM
not necessarily. You could cut them out using masks and bezier splines and LOTS of anchor points...
TeetimeNC wrote on 10/17/2006, 5:24 PM
For the people, use photoshop or other similar tool to remove the background from photos of the people and bring into Vegas with alpha channel. I believe the rest is just standard 3d planar compositing. Do a search here for "kid stays in the picture" for more about this technique.

Jerry
Dan Sherman wrote on 10/17/2006, 6:17 PM
Did anybody esle see Jimmy Hoffa!!!???
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/17/2006, 6:41 PM
my guess... I would speculate that the placing and animating took the better part of a couple of days going pretty solid) Therwas a lot of finetuning done by the looks of it. As for the whole project, cutting folks out, getting the right BG's etc... for all the walls and such, I bet a week of solid work... maybe more.

Vegas is not a compositing software, I would bet that this could have been done sooner/faster in something like combustion etc...

Dave
bStro wrote on 10/17/2006, 7:07 PM
TeeTime: Yeah, I understand how it's done. But most of the KITP clips I've seen that were done in Vegas are a lot simpler than this. Two or maybe three planes. Far as I can tell, the clip above uses fifteen or sixteen individual planes.

I was just saying it probably took quite a bit of work to build it, something usually done in software written especially for this kind of thing, as FrigidNDEditing mentions.

Rob
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/17/2006, 8:23 PM
if it were me, i'd plan out the movements on paper, then animate, render each object movement to a new uncompressed AVI track with alpha. It would take alot of planning, but as we can see, the results are beautiful.
farss wrote on 10/17/2006, 8:48 PM
Has anyone noticed that that's not the only "Done entirely in Vegas" vid on YouTube?
I take my hat off to the person doing them, a great bit of viral marketing, come on Sony he at least deserves a T Shirt.
hunterman9 wrote on 10/17/2006, 9:45 PM
I looked at the comments on one of the and author is asked how he did it, and the reply is given.


Quote follows:

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aksouza
Amazing!!! Explain how i can make this!!!

Hello, aksouza.

The objects are images in PNG format.
To build the scene, distribute the objects in the 3D space.
The road is a square texture repeated along the Z axis

Finally, use keyframes to move the camera through the scene.

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Still, a lot of work.
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/17/2006, 9:52 PM
Do something similar with this veggie from Orcatek, it won a VASST contest last year, and is very similar to the one found on utube.
Substitute your own media for Dean's generated media.
Edward wrote on 10/18/2006, 2:24 AM
Check out my promo I did. I put it together in Vegas. The 3D High School Logos were done by someone else in After Effects (Invigorator). Don't mind the stall about 1 second in, it's how it uploaded.
TeetimeNC wrote on 10/18/2006, 4:25 AM
Rob, I agree it would take a bit of work. I've done simple KSITP with After Effects and the addition of cameras makes it easier there. I wish Vegas would add cameras.

Jerry
Edward wrote on 10/18/2006, 4:42 AM
amen to that. i miss the path control back in VV 3.0, before 3D compositing. after effects does it so well.