Flames or Fire?

ABIP wrote on 5/17/2009, 11:36 AM

Does Vegas have the capability to superimpose flames? Any sort of generator for the effect of flames? Premiere has a 'quicktime effect" of flames that are adjustable and can go on a video track.

Thanks!

Comments

richard-courtney wrote on 5/17/2009, 12:10 PM

Particle Illusion is a great program and I think the eval is free.
Yes you can use Vegas to composite it.

If you need more help describe what you want the flames to be in the frame.

Jaums wrote on 5/17/2009, 12:40 PM

I want to superimpose flames that originate at the bottom of the frame and extend up most of the way to the top of the frame over a track of video.

rs170a wrote on 5/17/2009, 1:11 PM

Hopefully the flames have an alpha channel as that will make the compositing MUCH easier.

Mike

Harold Brown wrote on 5/17/2009, 3:08 PM

There is one gun shot and two examples of flames in this video that I placed there via Vegas composite. The flames are from Detonation Films.
http://www.vimeo.com/2960901

The composite stuff starts at about 1 minute into the 5 minute video.

I have created exhaust backfires and tire smoke as well, doing all the work in Vegas and Detonation Films footage. I also have PI but seldom use it as I really don't have the time to learn it. It is, however, a great tool.

http://www.detonationfilms.com/

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/17/2009, 7:04 PM

I used a series of PNG's (that were flames) to make a series of PNG's that had an alpha channel saved in the file for use with composting. They look really good imho.

As long as there's a solid color on the background you can do one of two things: chroma key out that color or use a few layers & mask it. Works either way.