Creating Depth

swdigital wrote on 5/13/2003, 1:00 AM
I'm working on a project that I would like to have 5 or more video sources crossing
each other on the screen. I have been able to perform this effect with track motion containing multiple video tracks, however it has no depth. I would like to have some of the videos smaller in the background, some in the middle and of course a few passing in the front of the scene. Thanking in advance for any assistance.

Comments

TorS wrote on 5/13/2003, 1:59 AM
Surely you can reduce the sizes with track motion. You must have each video on its own track. You can also reduce the opacity a bit on the smaller ones, to enhance the illusion of distance.
Tor
stormstereo wrote on 5/13/2003, 2:24 AM
Maybe make the videos in front cast shadows on the ones behind?
Best/Tommy
Grazie wrote on 5/13/2003, 3:20 AM
Another neat idea is to make up a still of one of the clips; make it paler/transparent-ish than the others and float it inbetween the clips. This still you could put on a separate track and "fly-it" it in from a different direction. OR, just thought of it, if a clip with movement have move across the screen in slomo, somehow "reflected" the main event it is part of.
You could also try putting lines and scrathes onto a PsP or PS PNG and move them in between. Try thinking of the effect you get when staring outta a train/car window? See how things pass in front of and behind other subjects - yeah?

Lots to do, lots to experiment with.

Grazie
Erk wrote on 5/13/2003, 10:44 AM
If by depth you mean having some clips moving on the Z axis, get the free 3d plugin from www.debugmode.com

G
24Peter wrote on 5/13/2003, 10:49 AM
Yes, get the 3d plug-in and then check out this tutorial

http://users.rcn.com/rofrano/Video/Vegas_Tips/vegas_tips.html#FloatingPages
mikkie wrote on 5/13/2003, 10:53 AM
Something like this is probably seen more with AE or similar - what they'd do is treat it as layers with lighting/shadowing etc. to give the illusion of depth. You could do the same thing, if you break it down in your mind's eye to what "you would expect to see", then create whatever's missing from the comp. - perhaps creating a track above 1 moving track, but below another, where the frames just apply a darkening FX, with motion, size, & syncing as nec...

Say the top track is a video or video window maybe at a 1/4 frame size, and it tracks from lower right to upper left... Depending on your imagined lighting, the next track would be the same shape, a bit larger or smaller, transparent with a feathered darkening, and a motion track that was a bit behind the 1st, maybe offset a little lower as well. Next track would be your 2nd video you wanted to move across the frame and so on.