Red Giant Trapcode " is an AE/Avid/CS4/FC-only plugin that allows one to fine tune radiance.
You can see a bit of that vertical effect on the illustration in the above included link to the product page.
My main interest in finding something like this for Vegas is to add subtle vertical glow to scenes, such as I saw on the flashback scenes in the "Veronica Mars" series. I could have captured one of these scenes of of my Netflix online streaming viewer, but I'm too copyright compulsive to do so...
The closest included effect in Vegas is Light Rays, but it is nowhere near as tweakable and cannot do parallel effects, only radial (= all effects go out from one center point). And as usual, I'm the pauper man and even if Red Giant were available for Vegas, I can't spend USD $ 99 for one single effect.
But I'm hoping there must be something somewhere (plugin or script or ?) that could approximate this. (Yes, I've tried with Gauss, no-go, it just, well, blurs :) The thing that I like about what this effect does to images or scenes is that any highlight (i.e. edge of glass table, window sill, etc.) gets some bleed and thus a dreamy ambiance.
Below is a link to a short online Flash tutorial, the first half of which uses a lousy example, so... let it buffer to the middle until you see the white word "star" appear: this example shows that the "bleed" or effect can be linear or parallel--and tweaked even though it is applied only to very simple text.
Hence it does not show the image or scene-applicable effect I'm shooting for but at least it shows what this plugin can do.
Thanks for suggestions, referrals, workarounds, whatever.
Starglow Flash Tutorial
You can see a bit of that vertical effect on the illustration in the above included link to the product page.
My main interest in finding something like this for Vegas is to add subtle vertical glow to scenes, such as I saw on the flashback scenes in the "Veronica Mars" series. I could have captured one of these scenes of of my Netflix online streaming viewer, but I'm too copyright compulsive to do so...
The closest included effect in Vegas is Light Rays, but it is nowhere near as tweakable and cannot do parallel effects, only radial (= all effects go out from one center point). And as usual, I'm the pauper man and even if Red Giant were available for Vegas, I can't spend USD $ 99 for one single effect.
But I'm hoping there must be something somewhere (plugin or script or ?) that could approximate this. (Yes, I've tried with Gauss, no-go, it just, well, blurs :) The thing that I like about what this effect does to images or scenes is that any highlight (i.e. edge of glass table, window sill, etc.) gets some bleed and thus a dreamy ambiance.
Below is a link to a short online Flash tutorial, the first half of which uses a lousy example, so... let it buffer to the middle until you see the white word "star" appear: this example shows that the "bleed" or effect can be linear or parallel--and tweaked even though it is applied only to very simple text.
Hence it does not show the image or scene-applicable effect I'm shooting for but at least it shows what this plugin can do.
Thanks for suggestions, referrals, workarounds, whatever.
Starglow Flash Tutorial