Soft film through gauze look - how ?

arcorob wrote on 10/13/2005, 12:31 PM

I do wedding videos, very much in a documentary style and have recently added doing special effects, etc, slow mo, glow, black & white but the one I cant seem to master (what VideoFX ) is that soft filmed through gauze look I see on other demo's, What effect is that ? I have tried gaussien blur and it does not do it...

Anyone can help ?

One other question. I am trying to find the easiest way to do dual effects. The effect is as follows :

1) Slow motion for say 5 seconds

2) Starts in black and white and fades to color

I can do the slow mo and I can do the fade from b& w to color but to do it together took pains

I wound up with one clip over the other
Top one in b& w with slow mo
Bottom in color with slow mo
On the top one, I use the fader on the right side of clip (opacity slide I guess ) but the problem is , getting the two to align was rough

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 10/13/2005, 12:48 PM

Do you know how to use keyframes? Apply the B&W filter, set it to completely black & white at the beginning of the clip, then add a keyframe at 5 seconds and set it completely to color. This will avoid having to fade one clip into another one.

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/13/2005, 12:48 PM

There is a tutorial here and Stan Stonefield has a good one on Vegasusers.com as well.

To do the dual fx;
1. Slowmo is done with either Velocity Envelope (right click event/Insert Envelope/Velociy)
2. Drop B/W filter on event, use keyframe to go from 100% greyscale to 0% greyscale.

Use sync to cursor once you've got the greyscale image working.

Former user wrote on 10/13/2005, 1:08 PM

Try the glow effect.

Or, on one track have the video, on the second track have the same video with a blur. Adjust the opacity of the second track.

Dave T2

arcorob wrote on 10/13/2005, 6:44 PM

Thank you all !!

Vegas is awesome and I have done very very straight creative wed vids WITHOUT much effects (though I have tried many ) however, have really be letting it all out there (even using Movie looks however renders are horrendous for anything over a few sconds or a minute)

Thanks to all