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bravado15 wrote on 3/22/2003, 6:48 PM
It's primitive. Probably will look terrible. Surely someone has a better way. But...

Try video taping your computer screen w/ the 'flying thru space' screen saver on.

I haven't tried it, but you'd probably need to change the shutter speed on your video camera to get rid of the standard flicker.
Also, to clean it up, you may want to change the contrast or color in special effects to make it look better.

Hope you get something to work.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/22/2003, 8:08 PM
There is a tutorial on that SPOT did for Vegas. It doesn’t work the same in VideoFactory because VF doesn’t have Track Motion and if you try to simulate it with Pan/Crop it won’t work unless you render the starfield to an AVI file first. So follow SPOT’s tutorial for the first track. Then instead of duplicating the track, render it to an AVI file and bring in back in on the overlay track and complete the tutorial. This should work.

~jr
miketree wrote on 3/24/2003, 3:28 AM
If you want to do it the 'original' way....

I believe it was done by filming an alka-seltzer in a glass of water from above, in the dark, lit from underneath. Or something like that.

Never tried it myself but I would be interested to see if anyone can reproduce it.
mwp wrote on 3/24/2003, 10:03 AM
SOunds great. However, the first step says to right click on the video track and Insert Generated Media. However, all I can inset is Text Media. I tried that and followed the next two steps, but no stars appeared. Do I need to import some blank video from my camera to start this process?

Thanks!

Mark
discdude wrote on 3/24/2003, 10:58 AM
Creating a Star Field (adapted from DSE's Creative Cow Tutorial)

These instructions are for Video Factory 2.0c:

1) Go to the "Text and Backdrops" tab.
2) Select "Solid Color" from the list.
3) Drag the "Black" preset to the timeline.
4) Go to the "Video FX" tab.
5) Drag any "Add Noise" preset to the timeline. Move the "Noise Level" slider all the way to the right so the level is equal to 1.00.
6) Drag the "Brightness and Contrast" preset to the timeline. Move the "Contrast" slider all the way to the right so the level is equal to 1.00.
7) At this point you should have a static starfield. Render the movie.
8) Import the rendered movie.
9) Put one copy on the "Video Overlay" track. Reduce track opacity to 50%.
10) Open the "Pan & Crop" dialog. Check the checkbox between the "Begin" and "End" buttons. Push the "End" button. Make the "F" box smaller. This basically zooms into the image.
11) Put another copy on the "Video" track. Repeat step 10, but zoom in less.

Hope this helps. I'll edit these instructions if I messed something up.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/24/2003, 8:11 PM
I couldn't have said it better myself. ;-) Thanks discdude. You beat me to it.

~jr