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FuTz wrote on 6/20/2002, 3:39 PM
Ha ha ha ha ha!!! yeah!!!! great demos!!!!
SonyDennis wrote on 6/20/2002, 5:01 PM
Very nice job. Did you ADR the audio, it seems really clean (better than an on-camera mic <g>).

Have you checked out the transporter effect tutorial? It looks a little different than yours, although yours was quite nice (used Noise, right?)

ftp://porker.sonicfoundry.com
user: dude
password: sweet

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ftp://dude:sweet@porker.sonicfoundry.com

Directory: Sample Projects \ Transporter

Cheers,
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Chienworks wrote on 6/20/2002, 5:28 PM
Dennis, yes, I asked Les about that and he had the boys overdub their lines during editing. That was actually the first thing i noticed about the video! ;)
briggs wrote on 6/20/2002, 9:59 PM
Right, used the noise video effect and, as Kelly mentioned, had the boys do overdubs. I had them listen to how they said it originally then clicked record and had them try to exactly duplicate it.

I like the SF transporter tutorial too. It seems to have more of a glow to it, which I like -- but not as much outline of the individual. Maybe the two ways could be combined.

(Kudos again to Chien for providing a repository where we can share ideas with each other.)

-Les
fanningp wrote on 6/21/2002, 5:48 AM
FYI...in the Star Trek: TNG Season One DVD set, on Disc 7, there is a "Making of" video in which each element of the transporter effect is shown briefly. I was toying with the idea of capturing those elements somehow and attempting to replicate it in VV3.....

Pete
(wife blessed me with TNG sets for Fathers day :))
SonyDennis wrote on 6/22/2002, 12:38 AM
There's some old Star Trek:TOS stuff on eBay auction right now, and one of them is a memo detailing how a shot was to be filmed so that the transporter effect can be done to it in post. It entails having the actors stand still for a while, and also getting a shot of the background-only, of course all of this is with a locked-down camera.

A cool cheat to fool people into thinking you did it without a locked down camera is to lock down with a wide angle shot, and then in Vegas, zoom in using pan/crop on the elements, or Track Motion on the parent track. It will look like the camera was panning when it really wasn't.

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Stiffler wrote on 6/22/2002, 8:59 AM
Good job, Briggs!

The background music adds to the video also, did you find that on findsounds.com also?
KatKat wrote on 6/22/2002, 9:12 PM
Where is this tutorial? I would like to see how this was done. I mean i know some of the basics of having the same shot with the people in it and without the people, and using noise for the sparkle effect. But I'm a little unclear on exactly how it was done....
Thanks,

Mark
briggs wrote on 6/22/2002, 9:30 PM
Mark,

If you visit http://www.chienworks.com/media/vidfact/ and click on the notes icon, you'll see a brief write-up I did on creating the effect. Hopefully that will help fill in any gaps. I found it to be alot of fun, without much difficulty -- once you get the basics of it down.

-Les