outline

usman152008 wrote on 8/26/2004, 12:46 PM

how can i create an outline of a thing? Basically what i am making is a car slidshow and with music. So at the beginning i dont want teh car to appear, i just want it being outlined and when the outline is complete, then i want it to appear. any help?

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 8/26/2004, 2:47 PM

One way, not the easiest way, is to use the Bezier mask tool over generated media, to draw a line of the portions of the car you'd like to outline.
You can also create a good outline/sketch using blackwhite filter with the Convolution Kernel or Bump Map, depending on how accurate you want the outline to appear. Another thing to do is take a still of the car and drop it into Photoshop and use the tools there to create the outline and then blend/transition that still into the car shot.

HeeHee wrote on 8/26/2004, 3:02 PM

I think it was Satish that wrote a pluggin for something like this. The plugin will draw lines from point to point. I can't find it on his webpage www.debugmode.com, but I did try once and it worked great.

Satish, are you out there? Was this your plugin?

DGrob wrote on 8/26/2004, 7:47 PM

You could start with the effects talked about here:

http://thetroxels.com/vegas/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44

I think it'd be easy enough to mask within and without to create your outline. Darryl