Flash Screen

upde wrote on 9/6/2002, 5:23 PM

Does anyone one know how to make a white flash in between frames, not a fade out but an actual flash. Like in that Nissan Maxima commercial where the car goes through the intersection and the street camera follows it.

It is also called a Camera Flash Transistion.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Comments

SonyDennis wrote on 9/6/2002, 5:49 PM

The way that I've done this is to edit my scenes normally, then create a new video track, and position my flash event (just a solid white generated media) centered above the edit, with fade up and fade downs that meet in the middle. Play across the edit to get the width and fade timings and curves just right. Now, position the cursor on the edit (click on the edit on the lower track) and then drag the snap offset gadget (the little white triangle at the lower-left of the event) of the flash event to the cursor location in the center of the event (it will snap when you get close). Now, position the cursor at the next edit (snap to the edit) and Ctrl+drag the flash event there. The snap-offset will snap to the cursor, perfectly centered. Lather, rinse, repeat. Done.
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tadpole wrote on 9/6/2002, 6:50 PM

Or of course, you could alway use the Vegas Plugin Pack.
Included is a transition called "Flash" - does a pretty good job
simulating a camera flash.

Download the demo (watermarked)and try it out.

SonyDennis wrote on 9/9/2002, 12:19 PM

Forgot about that one <g>, good call.

The "Dissolve" transition in either "Additive" or "Fade Through White" preset might give you what you want.

BTW, with my first posted example, try setting the overlay mode to "add" for a different effect.

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