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mliebergot wrote on 9/22/2006, 11:30 AM
There is a plug FX in Vegas, that would make it easy to do.

Just keyframe the effect accordingly and walla.
Grazie wrote on 9/22/2006, 11:33 AM
Dupe Clips

Track 1 : Mask the area you want in sharp focus using Bezier Masking in Pan/Crop

Track 2 : Will now be the background you can add Gaussian Blur.

Tip #1: Play with the feather in T1 to get the smooth transition from sharp to blurry. This will assist you in getting that "layered" effect.

Tip #2: Play with the saturation levels of T2 too.

Once you get the hang of it, you can achieve quite a bit.

Grazie wrote on 9/22/2006, 11:34 AM
Oh! that was much easier . . .
DavidSinger wrote on 9/22/2006, 11:52 AM
"There is a plug FX in Vegas, that would make it easy to do."

,,,and the name of that plug-in is??? Let me guess, it starts with "Sony"
winrockpost wrote on 9/22/2006, 12:23 PM
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/download/Step3.asp?URLID=2421&SerialNum=

Huge download , but one of the sample projects is rack focus,,, I think .
busterkeaton wrote on 9/22/2006, 1:01 PM
I think you voila.


But walla is a very useful term for film.

http://www.filmsound.org/terminology/walla.htm
http://www.ruyasonic.com/sfx_walla.htm
winrockpost wrote on 9/22/2006, 1:02 PM
nope not on there, i know i saw it, maybe on the V5 sample projects,,
winrockpost wrote on 9/22/2006, 1:49 PM
OK its on the vegas 5 sample projects. so if you have the sample cd its tgere or you can download from sony.
the notes are:



Rack_focus.veg shows how you can change focus between the foreground and background.

Track 3 is the entire shot, with a keyframed blur on the event.

Track 2 uses blur, color correction, and cookie cutter event fx to create a slash light effect.

Track 1 uses a mask (event pan/crop) to cut out the cup from the rest of the scene. A keyframed blur on the event starts with the cup out of focus and rolls into focus, while the lower tracks start in focus and roll out of focus.
Serena wrote on 9/22/2006, 6:55 PM
"But walla is a very useful term for film."

In the "Goon Show" they always said 'rubarb' for background crowd mutterings so I'd assumed this was the BBC walla. I should make that comment "OT" !!!
DJPadre wrote on 9/22/2006, 7:02 PM
afew ways..

to pinpoint a rack area, try cookie cutter on top layer without gausian
lower layer run gausian blur then KF the cookies motion (I wish you could lock the ponter points XY axis, like u can in pan crop.. but alas... )

thats one way
another way is Grazies

another way 9which is the one i use and its dead fast is the radial blur. Not exactly a rack focus, but i can get some good results if u dont go overboard with the blur

i think there was another way but i cant remember right now..