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soaringrocks wrote on 5/4/2006, 8:58 PM
Use the glow FX. Set a couple of values in the keyframe timeline in rapid succession and it makes a nice flash effect.
Siby wrote on 5/5/2006, 5:11 PM
Thanks I will try it tonigt
shelbymc wrote on 5/8/2006, 9:48 AM
Awesome!! i was just browsing but had been thinking about that as well..thanks

I am trying to make a cool sizzle(stinger) trailer for an independent horror movie. will try the suggested flash effect. any suggestions for the photo effect or any other cool transitions. Please help.

-shelby
Spot|DSE wrote on 5/8/2006, 10:57 AM
Soaringrocks gave you a good idea, but you can also experiment with generated media, blurs, glows, gradients, and other sorts of vid overlaid. use a Negative combined with a flash transition, etc. Lots of possiblities.
shelbymc wrote on 5/8/2006, 4:55 PM
Thanks DSE!!!
Siby wrote on 5/19/2006, 7:49 AM
soaringrocks,
I tried it but cannot achieve it. Could you please explain it little more in detail I am not a very expert in VMS.
I am creating a slide show using around 50 photos. When some of the photos displayed, I wanted to have a photo camara flash effect. I have the flash camara shutter sound Wave file that I am using for that particular frame.
soaringrocks wrote on 5/19/2006, 2:45 PM
There are several ways to do this... this is something simple I used. This is not especially imaginative, but at I'm no pro either. My best advice is to experiment... look again at DSE's message, there are lots of ways to jazz up the effect (and if you find something you really like, please share).

Here's what I did.

If you're using a video stream to create a snapshot... Play your video and pause the action where you want the snapshot to ocurr. Expand your preview area and select the "Save Snapshot to File..." icon from the upper right-hand part of the preview window (it looks a bit like a floppy disk). Save it as a "Portable Network Graphic" (.png) file. This is the picture you'll turn into a snapshot.

Split the video to stop at the point where you saved the snapshot. Once you have created the still picture don't move the timeline bar until you're done. Find the .png file you created and put it in the timeline at the cut point.

On the image you use for the snapshot, select the "Event FX..." icon (just below the pan/crop icon). If you don't have any effects slected, the "Plug-in Chooser - Video Event FX" window appears. Select "Sony Black and White" and "Sony Glow" and click OK.

Select Black and White and move the Blend Amount slider to the desired point (I set mine all the way to the right). Select Glow.

In the Video Event FX Dialog, notice the keyframe diamonds in the "Glow" row. Click on Glow in the keyframe list and create a keyframe just a few moments into the picture. The idea here is that you enhance the glow effect on the first keyframe (this is the flash)and use the second keyframe point to return the picture to a no glow condition.

Once you have a second keyframe point, select the first keyframe. Adjust Glow percent and intensity sliders for the 1st keyframe and make your picture look like a flash strobe just went off. Select the 2nd keyframe diamond and move it left or right to control the duration of the "flash".

I did this in a hurry (I may have made some mistakes, please let me know where I screwed up).

Enjoy.