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Eugenia wrote on 4/28/2011, 12:02 PM
You can't. I had the same need last year, and there's no plugin, or third party plugin, to offer that ability like there is on AE or FCS. I was able to just use some Vegas Pro way to move the frame a tiny bit up and down using some special keyframing thingie (can't remember the name now), but this ability does not exist on Platinum. And even then, by doing it manually, frame by frame, the effect was NOT as good as the real thing as you can see in some metal music videos that use specialized plugins. You can see my effort on the 2:30 minute of my video: http://vimeo.com/9260666
Markk655 wrote on 4/28/2011, 12:59 PM
Have a look at proDAD's Mercalli (this has the capability to add shaking, although it is meant to deshake/stabilize).

Also try NewBlue's Motion Effects that will give you exactly what you are looking for.

You can also try the following tutorial on You Tube.

Eugenia wrote on 4/28/2011, 1:16 PM
The shake effect on NewBlue/mercalli, and the film jitter is not exactly the same as the one in music videos: Unfortunately only iTunes has a high quality version of the video above to see that when there's actually a jitter there's also a blur. It's that combination that makes the effect magic. If you simply just add jitter or camera shake it will just look like a bad camera handling, not as the intended effect. And since these plugins are automatic in the way they apply their jitter, you can't add the blurring EXACTLY on the right frames.

I re-iterate, to properly create the well known heavy metal jitter/pulse-blur effect you need After Effects or FCS, or you must go frame by frame, by moving and bluring frames, which is time consuming and not as well-done anyway.
thefyn wrote on 4/29/2011, 10:08 AM
Good info, thanks. Looks like there is a little niche for effects writers eh?