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28 April 2008 @ 05:15 pm
Vegas vidding tricks!  

Pretty transition!!!

In my last vid, I used something similar to what Ulead has called mask transitions. And I did it all in Vegas!

How I do it:
1. Install the SMLuminance transition plugin from Scott's Fabulous Website

2. Open up Vegas

3. Use the Softer Bitmap transition under Luminance between two clips.

4. Under Transition Properties, click "Browse" to find any supported image. (In my last vid, I took a screencap of Alex's eye and used that quite a bit.) That'll be the "texture"/"mask" for your transition. Play with the softness and with the "black dissolves first"/"white dissolves first" and that's it! Pretty transition!!!

The film-style optical one is really nice too. :D



Frameserving!!!

And just so this mini tutorial doesn't get lost in a random comment, I'm reposting it here. This comes in handy when you want to plunk in ENTIRE episodes into Vegas so the program doesn't complain at you.

How I do it:
1. Install AVISynth 2.5 and ffdshow. You need something like Haali Media Splitter for MKV files.

Addendum: When installing ffdshow, you can have the option of not letting it handle your codecs, and just install it for the makeAVIS feature.

2. Open up Notepad, type the following script, and save as yourfilename.avs

DirectShowSource("C:\path to your video file\yourvideofile.avi")

3. Find ffdshow's makeAVIS in the Start Menu after you install it. Open yourfilename.avs as the AviSynth script, make your output as yourNEWfilename.avi, and click Create. Since I'm not bothering with audio here, you can unclick the audio box. I'm not quite sure what the rest of it means yet.

4. Open yourNEWfilename.avi (a really relatively TINY filesize that makes Vegas happy) in Vegas, and you're good to go.

Whew. Does that make sense? Basically, frameserving is a way to make a dummy file that Vegas or any other editor will like, but that dummy file actually "reads" from the original. It's a very cool thing really.



And on another vidding note, I now have streaming on LJ direct from my own host. Whoohoo!
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Leviathan: DW Ten fresh[info]leviathan101 on April 29th, 2008 02:07 am (UTC)
And on another vidding note, I now have streaming on LJ direct from my own host. Whoohoo

I agree, that is a very cool thing! Thanks for the tip. Our streams do look more awesome than any other. :)

I will have to try the frameserving thing out later tonight.
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rhoboat: Owen - Dork[info]rhoboat on April 29th, 2008 03:13 am (UTC)
Frameserving really is cool! You can plunk entire episodes (either AVI, MKV, etc.) into Vegas, and the program doesn't complain. I hope you get to try it out!
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Code Red Staring: [actors] a2a gang[info]hollywoodgrrl on April 29th, 2008 02:58 am (UTC)
YES!!! Thank you for this! I"m definitely sticking this in my memories to learn it all. Woohoo!!! *twirls*
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rhoboat: Ten Martha and Jack[info]rhoboat on April 29th, 2008 03:14 am (UTC)
I'm all about sharing, yup!
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Code Red Staring: [tw] bastard torchwood[info]hollywoodgrrl on May 8th, 2008 03:36 am (UTC)
Qvestion.

Ok, so I've been trying to figure it out all night. I get as far as having what looks like successful dummy files, but when I try to stick them into Vegas they look don't have picture and only like 5 seconds of audio. Have you any ideas what might be up?
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rhoboat: Ten - ?[info]rhoboat on May 8th, 2008 06:13 am (UTC)
Ummmm, no idea.

What you might try is uninstall ffdshow, reinstall (make sure it's the one I linked) it, but make sure you tell it not to handle codecs and only use it for the makeAVIS feature. I wonder if that'll work. :?
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Code Red Staring: [actors] ct; face? bovvered?[info]hollywoodgrrl on May 8th, 2008 11:59 am (UTC)
Hey you think it has something to do with the fact that I didn't install that Haali Media Splitter? Because I can't find any link to work when I try to dl that thing. (If this is the case, maybe you can somehow hook me up with yours?)
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rhoboat: Ten - Stethoscope[info]rhoboat on May 8th, 2008 05:11 pm (UTC)
If you're working with MKV files, then you need the Haali Media Splitter. Otherwise, then it all depends on what codecs you have for the video files. Anyway, the direct link for download is up in the top right corner of that page I linked - http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/MatroskaSplitter.exe. :)
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Code Red Staring: [dw] that's a luger that is[info]hollywoodgrrl on May 8th, 2008 05:45 pm (UTC)
A'ight coolness. The page wouldn't load before. Aaaanyway thanks. :)
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Jules: DW: Ten shiny[info]diapadme on April 29th, 2008 08:40 am (UTC)
Heh, thanks for posting these tutorials. I just tried the first one out but suddenly my preview window didn't work properly. So I deleted this plugin again. Anyway, there's still the shiny frameserving left! And I'm really glad there's something like frameserving. Saves me a lot of DVDs.

Thanks again! :D
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rhoboat: A2A - Alex :O[info]rhoboat on April 29th, 2008 07:54 pm (UTC)
Oh no!!! No idea why the first one wouldn't work for you. :( At least there's frameserving!
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Aruna7: cookie cutter love[info]aruna7 on May 1st, 2008 04:36 pm (UTC)
The transition tutorial is really interesting. =)
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rhoboat: Ten - Geek[info]rhoboat on May 1st, 2008 06:55 pm (UTC)
:)
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Jeannie Jay: Empty Room[info]jeannie_jay on May 5th, 2008 10:51 pm (UTC)
Quick query about ffdshow, what do you select to install for makeavis? - I can't find this on the list of components. I'm nervous about experimenting with it, I've had my problems with conflicting codecs.
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rhoboat: Ten - Stethoscope[info]rhoboat on May 5th, 2008 11:20 pm (UTC)
When you install ffdshow, you can have the option not let it handle codecs. The makeAVIS should show up automatically. :)
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Jeannie Jay: Empty Room[info]jeannie_jay on May 5th, 2008 11:49 pm (UTC)
Thank you! I see now - I was just being overly nervous on account of accidentally doing disastrous things with such programs in the past
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Jeannie Jay[info]jeannie_jay on May 11th, 2008 10:06 pm (UTC)
Hey, I thought I'd let you know something I've found out about frameserving with ffdshow - don't know if this is a problem for you at all, but I couldn't get my tiny avis to load in SV until I did some searching & found that people were writing 'DirectShowSource' when the target was mpg but using 'AVISource' when it was an avi file. This made all the difference. Again thanks for the info, it's very helpful.
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