How Did They Do This?

DanVM wrote on 7/15/2010, 6:11 AM
Firstly, I want to say that I'm incredibly impressed with VMS 10 HD! I own NLE's from 4 other companies and can honestly say that if I had to choose just one, it would be VMS.

Recently I came across a video with some effects that I would like to reproduce. It is a video located at https://www.robbell.com/resurrection/ and what I'm really wondering about are the effects they added. I loved the streaks of color like they added at 1:13. Also, and this is what really got me thinking, I'm wondering how they did the "behind then in front" effects like at 1:39, 2:20, and 2:26. If the subject, in this case the speaker, were to remain still a simple "underlay" to "overlay" track would work but what would happen if the subject were to move? Does masking come into play where I would have to consider more costly software? If so, could Vegas Pro mask that accurately?

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/15/2010, 6:36 AM
This kind of thing is usually done with Adobe's After Effects.
Eugenia wrote on 7/15/2010, 5:12 PM
It's not just masking. After Effects is "smart" and recognizes patterns, so you only need to go frame by frame to fix small things that it didn't get right, while if you were to do the same thing with Vegas Pro, you would have to do all the work by hand. Plus, the actual streaking effects wouldn't be as smooth, since they would be by hand and not by a computer algorithm.

So yeah, as Ivan said, if you want to do this kind of videos (also popular in TV ads lately), you need After Effects (and since After Effects can go back and forth to Premiere without re-encoding, it'd make more sense to use Premiere Pro too).

Problem is, the "Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium" suit costs $1700.