How to make "Lightning" effect ?

RogerB1 wrote on 7/7/2008, 7:28 AM

I have a sequence taken in a car during a huge storm, (high wind, hail, rain, thunder) and would like to add some lightning to it. Is there a way in Vegas or somthing else? How? I have Pro 8. thanks so much. Roger

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johnmeyer wrote on 7/7/2008, 10:21 AM

Here's a link to a really old Vegas VEG that someone (not me) did. Hopefully it will still work in the current version of Vegas (it works in 7.0d). Link good for seven days:

Lightning_NightSky.veg

RogerB1 wrote on 7/7/2008, 10:31 AM

Thank you VERY much! I give it try as soon as I can. :o)

Jim H wrote on 7/7/2008, 3:31 PM

Depending on your scene, you may wish to simply add a photo of some good bolts as a couple of quick stills. Mask them out so just the bolt shows add some feather to your mask. You could then add a "glow" effect to the event. In addition to the bolts try jacking up the brightness of your scene for a frame or three on either side of the bolt. Experiment with it.

At 1:18 in this video I used both techniques. The canned vegas bolt and a couple of jpgs I found.

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RogerB1 wrote on 7/7/2008, 7:08 PM

Hey, that looked good! thanks for the tip. I was actually thinking along the same lines as this. I will try it out. r.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/7/2008, 8:05 PM

You might also want to look into particleIllusion by Wondertouch. It has some great lightning emitters along with 1000's of other FX.

~jr