video clip effect

bapski wrote on 9/29/2002, 9:12 AM

i want to "introduce everybody" in my video clip... want i want to do is, maybe "freeze" a scene, say 2 seconds and then make something like sort of "labels" (names of the characters, i.e. uncle sam, auntie marie) for each character.. i saw this done in some films. .wonder how id do it in VV3...

thanks ..

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salad wrote on 9/29/2002, 9:22 AM

Check out a recent thread on similar topic called "Shaky Frozen Frame" dated Sept 23

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=124893&Replies=9&Page=2

Chienworks wrote on 9/29/2002, 9:31 AM

This is way easier than this description will seem at first, so hang in there ...

The best way to do this is with Velocity Envelopes, however, the Velocity Envelope will only stop the video. It won't pause the audio, so an extra step is necessary.

Place a velocity envelope on the video track.

Split the clip at the point where you want the freeze to occur. Position the cursor at this point and press the S key.

Drag the right section of the clip over to the right to create enough room for the duration of the freeze.

Add 4 nodes to the velocity envelope: one at the end of the first part of the clip where the freeze occurs (node 1), another at the beginning of the next part of the clip (node 4), and two more inbetween (nodes 2 and 3). Drag node 2 down to 0% speed and position it directly under node 1. Drag node 3 down to 0% speed and position it directly under node 4.

Extend the end of the first part of the clip past the freeze point until it touches the next part of the clip. This part will play at 0% velocity and therefore be frozen.

Add your titles to another video track above the track with the clip in it.

Yes, that sounds a little daunting, but once you're doing it you'll find it's quite easy.

Tyler.Durden wrote on 9/29/2002, 9:56 AM

Hi bapski,

Another way to stop action and add overlays is part of the "draw-on" tutorial:

http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html

Instead of making a circle wipe-on, you can have a title wipe-on.

HTH, MPH

FadeToBlack wrote on 9/29/2002, 1:38 PM

wcoxe1 wrote on 9/29/2002, 1:46 PM

You people are, as usual, great! How did all of you know that I would be needing to know this right about now. And SEVERAL good things to investigate, not just one. Great! Thanks.

bapski wrote on 9/29/2002, 10:16 PM

thank you everybody..well try out your suggestions as soon as i get the time...

more power to all of you guys...

mikkie wrote on 9/30/2002, 9:30 AM

It somewhat old fashioned now days, but another approach might be to incoporate actual stills.

Admitting I'm sometimes more comfortable in an image editing app, so it may be just me, I've taken stills from a video, applied whatever effects, say a bit of posterization & added a sepia tone (like a tri-tone pic, then bring it back into VV3 with a nice scene disolve for example. Doesn't always take much, but it can add mood &/or empasis.

You'd still need the envelopes, at least for the duration of the disolve or whatever transition, so it is a bit more work.