can you give a link to a sample of what you are talking about?

Cut to an orange screen (or any color) do a quick dissolve to your video. 2 to 10 frames will give you a flash effect.

Even more effective, colorize a few frames of the scene, cut to that and do a quick dissolve.

Dave T2

http://surfline.com/video/video_trailer/2005/jsps/circus_wm.cfm

this is as close as I could find
57 seconds in.( you don't have to watch those 57 seconds)
Thanks

I think what you are seeing (and maybe not in this particular example) is when a film roll runs out during the filming of a scene. It gets sort of orange and then over exposed before it flashes out. It used to be that editors would discard the heads and tails of film rolls automatically, but now I think it gets included because it gives the final product a sort of "it's so good we had to include every single frame" thing. I don't know.

Here is how I would try to do it.

V1 track: copy of your video
V2 track: your video

On video track 1, set the track overlay mode to Add (actually try all of the overlay modes to see which works best for your footage). On v1 colorize the footage orange, or use a gradient, and maybe add some glow on the highlights (you also try to add blur or even zoom in on the footage a little). on V1 insert a composite level envelope and bring it down to zero (to reveal V2 below it). At the end of the video where you want the flash to be, add some nodes to the composite level envelop and ramp it up to 100. Obviously this allows you to add multiple nodes so you can fade the upper V1 track up/down to your liking. Also, you might want to add a velocity envelope to V2 and V1 and ramp the speed up over the course of the orange flash to make it look like the film camera started to run out and get weird.

I know this sounds like it's complicated, it's actually not.

Jeff

That looked like a burnt film effect. The color changes are unsymetrical gradients that morph into a white flash. You might try dissolving to a media generator noise texture with a flash transition on the fade out.

pixelan spicemaster might give good results

Media Gen/Solid Color (orange) on top track (over your transition) pulled down to 50% maybe?

Yep. This may very well have been the tail of a roll of film that had gotten flashed outside of the camera. Super 8 cartridges do that. A 16mm mag will do it too if you didn't let it roll out.

Or it could have been simulated. If you go through it frame by frame you can see little details- spots and stuff-and these give it the look you want. It's not just a fade to orange.

Pull the file out of your IE or Firefox Cache and put it on a vegas timeline. You may need to rename the cached file. From there you can look at the frames.

Rob Mack