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TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/19/2004, 4:19 AM
What do you mean by "animation look?" Do you mean cartoons?
lcrf wrote on 3/19/2004, 4:56 AM
Yes. Any process that convert the film for something like a animation.
GlennChan wrote on 3/19/2004, 5:16 PM
Can you be more specific? What are cartoons/animations you want your footage to emulate? What exactly are you trying to do?

2- Animation is drawn and painted by people, so it's a representation of real life. It might be hard to take real life footage and make it animation-looking. It really depends what look you're trying to achieve though.

Vegas has color correction tools which will help. Color curves, secondary color corrector are ones you want to figure out.
Jsnkc wrote on 3/19/2004, 5:43 PM
Export the video os a image sequence, then create a action set in Photoshop and add some filters to make it look like a cartoon and run all the images through that. Then import all the images back into Vegas and render out to a AVI. That is the easiest way to get a good looking video.
BillyBoy wrote on 3/19/2004, 7:50 PM
Like already said, much better going out to some third party application then bring it back it. Vegas doesn't directly support retroscoping (paint on a new layer on top of your video) Borris does, but very pricey.

If your cartoons will include people two good methods are Poser (a 3D modelng application) and Flash. Both can export to AVI and both support their interputation of keyframing.

If you got a lot of time to kill exporting a series of stills then converting to vector graphics is a good method. Again, you can do that with Flash, that supports bitmap tracing. Results vary greatly. Something you can get a great result, other times not.