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plasmavideo wrote on 9/30/2008, 9:24 AM
If you are referring to making your video look like the current commercial vogue of a quasi cartoon look, I know of 2 options. I believe Spot has a tutorial about using Vegas filters to accomplish this on the Sundance site, and New Blue FX has plugins for Vegas and other NLEs to do this.

Tom
njharley wrote on 9/30/2008, 9:52 AM
Excellent, I'll check them out. Thanks so much
TGS wrote on 9/30/2008, 10:06 AM
New Blue FX gave us a free plug in, about 2 or 3 months ago. You'd have to do a search to see if the link is still available.
It works real easy, although slower to render.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/30/2008, 10:15 AM
If you're planning on making it look like a charles schwabb add, good luck. that requires some serious amounts of work. last I know they actually do that frame by frame after an application converts it for them, and they go through and make sure that things come out smoothly by hand adjusting each individual frame.

you can try with the NBFX one, but it's not going to do it, and to accomplish the look your going to be going for you'll need to slightly blur things a bit too, and the FX will just keep piling on.

However, you can get something close to it, using either NBFX's one or edge detective from VASST.

Dave
plasmavideo wrote on 9/30/2008, 10:20 AM
Also, if you use VirtualDub, there are some free filters from MSU that are quite good and flexible.
FuTz wrote on 9/30/2008, 4:48 PM
Jetdv used to have a good tute for that...

http://www.jetdv.com/vegas/forum/viewtopic.php?t=245

...click on the first link given by Edward and... cheers!
Rory Cooper wrote on 9/30/2008, 10:51 PM
A real good result try this


Double up your video clip on layer 1 and 2
Underneath place a white solid color

In the middle layer choose compositing mode bump map set the light source close to the middle

On the top layer set your transparency to about half

And you can play with the white panel for effect off white or whatever