VV Effects For Stills

tygrus wrote on 5/1/2003, 10:49 PM
I use VV mainly to put stills into a video where I then cross fade, add some music and add some pan/crop/zoom effects to the video to give it more flavour. I have also toyed around with a few other effects on stills such as a photo fade in effect where by piece of the window appears, then the rest of the photo fades. All nice effects which give photo stills new life. In fact stills of just about anything are more interesting when you make them into a video.

I was wondering if anyone has any other ideas or effects they have used in this manner on stills? I'd be interested in hearing any other ways to give these more emphasis. Thx.

tygrus

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FuTz wrote on 5/1/2003, 10:58 PM
You can try Satish's WinMorph application. You can download it free at:
www.debugmode.com

Like the name says, it's a morphing transition app that can be interesting to use with stills.
PDB wrote on 5/2/2003, 3:27 AM
There is a very nice technique someone posted a few weeks ago - apologies to the author for not remembering!- whereby you can do a composite of each still on a second track to add a nice backround. I have tried it and it makes a world of difference. I am not a my vegas machine at the moment but I will try to run through the technique from memory:

1. place your stills on track 1 with fades etc..
2. copy track 1 and place it on track 2 below.
3. on track 2, choose an effect of your liking (i used b&w at 75% preset) and apply at track level. In track motion, expand the track slightly (to your liking) and apply blur to the track to diffuse the stills.
4. On track 1, reduce the size of all stills using track motion so that each still is reduced to sit nicely within the frame of the video, allowing enough of track 2 to be seen below.

You're done!!! takes about 5 mins to do and is very powerful!!

Hope my memory serves me right!

best of luck!

Paul.
randy-stewart wrote on 5/2/2003, 9:27 AM
Tygrus,
Have you tried picture-in-picture with pan-crop or track motion? You can get really creative with that. Also, Vegas has many transitions that really add life to a slide show. I usually set my picture length to 8 seconds, overlap two seconds and add a transition from the list to the overlap. There are some samples of slide show effects on Chienworks site at "http://www.vegasusers.com/vidshare/". Techniques are discussed there also. My shows have the stewartr002 tag on the front but there are many others that are more creative. Check it out.
Randy