Very well done! I didn't know Vegas had such capabilities.

Looks great. I could have done it quicker in another app, stroking a path is faster than using an animated mask for these kinds of tasks.
You have a good eye for what you want to achieve and are able to reduce it to it's basic elements which is a vital skill to doing motion graphics. Keep up the good work and also consider looking at better tools. With your creativity and a bit of a learning curve you'll do really well.

Bob.

Excellent... great creativity.

Boom!

One shot . . . . Smokin'!

Pump up de Roars!

- g

Wow! Is it possible for you to share the .veg file for the barb wire sequences? You could strip out the audio & all the other video info. It'd just be nice to analyze how you did the "basic" effect.

Thx,
Brian

Second that. Love to see how it was done.

Thanks guys for the positive feedback

On the puzzle thing..i have this audio library,and that track I have never used and probly never will and it seems such a pity to let that track go by

For the veg..send me a mail and I will send it off

Bob for stroking a path are you saying that if I made a graphic of the one wire thread and then set a path as if tracking
That would have been quicker ?.......thinking about it now you are quite right

Also what tools would you suggest?

Thanks
Rory

"Bob for stroking a path are you saying that if I made a graphic of the one wire thread and then set a path as if tracking

The tool I woud have used is After Effects. With that you can draw a path (same as a Bezier mask except it's open) and then stroke it with a brush, you can keyframe all of the brush parameters as well.
Then you can apply the standard effects such as bevel and emboss to make it appear solid. Add lights, move a 3D camera around etc.

It's still not magic though. You need the kind of eye and skill that you already have to figure out how to use the tools. Also AE is only 2.5D, for your barbed wire I think you'd still have to handle the problem of occlusion with masks however getting the basic shapes drawn and animated is much easier than trying to animate a Beziere mask for what you were doing.


Bob.

Nice suggestion Bob! Like it!

Grazie

Ok Bob I can visualise what you are saying,in fact I have a project I am busy with and am doing something similar, thanks for the advice ….and will have a go in Boris as it does the same and if I am going to break some teeth it might as well be the back ones…so that I can still look a little pretty afterward

The real fx I used in that clip was the Dodge comp mode with a slight linear blur off the glow from the alpha which gives it that hot metal look

The other way to use dodge is like a light
http://www.myvideo.co.za/channels/xfx

in this clip I used the Ferarri logo [full colour] with a neg fx dodge composite and the same back pic as a displacement map

so the effect is like a logo being used as a spot light and as the light moves over black reseeded areas it disappears
and warps over the highlights

in this clip I used the Ferarri logo [full colour] with a neg fx dodge composite and
Excellent!

Grazie