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Post by Leda EmBorr on Jan 23, 2005 2:03:01 GMT -5
Here's a very nice link: www.kincharbamin.com/Adding-Saber-Glow.htmlThe instructions are for digital video, but if you scroll down the page, he gets into the photoshop part of the process. This is the most clearly explained tutorial I have ever seen! Kudos to Jedi Knight Kin-Char Bamin! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Primrodo on Jan 23, 2005 17:27:05 GMT -5
And with all due respect to the guy who wrote it, its not all that great. Clear yes, but only to a degree, Ryan's is a video too so its most likely even more clear  Seriously stick to Ryan_W's tutorial and you can even adapt it into a FLM file exported to Photoshop. |
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Jan 23, 2005 18:54:54 GMT -5
Who is Ryan and do you have a link? I have not seen anyone use PS screen captures in their tutorial. That to me much more visually helpful than reading a bunch of text. I'm a visual learner, and A picture says a thousand words! What I like the fact that he explains that everyone's image is different and that you just have to play with the effects until it looks right. Many tutorials that I have seen give specific values and that's it. Then someone inexperienced uses them and wonders why theirs did come out as good. I'm learning how to do the stuff in Premiere right now... so it was helpful to me to see the screen capture. He has motion blur to deal with, so he draws boxes, while I do mostly stills, so unless I have a foreshortened blade, I use the line tool in many layers. This guy has been nice enough to let me post his link here... let's not be so quick to put it down. If it can help someone out... then that's a good thing.  |
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Jan 23, 2005 20:23:52 GMT -5
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Post by Ki-Ade Rane on Apr 19, 2005 23:57:15 GMT -5
darn you beat me to it i was about to put kincharbamins site lol also AlamDV2 is quite good an effective i use both Photoshop and AlamDV2
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Post by BakaNeko on May 5, 2005 23:38:59 GMT -5
What other programs can you use instead of Adobe Premiere? Its cost to much for me and the trial version wont work on my computer for some reason. I have other video editing stuff but they dont give the option of saving as a filmstrip.
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Post by Anim8r on May 6, 2005 15:41:42 GMT -5
What other programs can you use instead of Adobe Premiere? Its cost to much for me and the trial version wont work on my computer for some reason. I have other video editing stuff but they dont give the option of saving as a filmstrip. You might not have to go far, actually. Have you poked around your DV software much? Exporting your vid as a filmstrip isn't the only method. Try searching the export dialog for 'Export as Sequence' or something similar. (i.e., a sequence of individual TIFFs , JPEGs, Targas, etc.) You can then proceed to Photoshop, open each frame and draw the blade masks. As for the Premiere Pro trial not working, do you own Windows XP? If not, this is most likely the problem, as the new Pro series depends on APIs only found in the latest OS. If all else fails, I recommend stepping away from the Photoshop method, and into that of a seasoned compositing application: Adobe After Effects 6.5 - About | TrialAutodesk [Discreet] Combustion 4 - About | Trialor for you Mac users... Apple Shake 4 - About |
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Post by Parga Carwis on May 22, 2005 0:49:25 GMT -5
I'm gonna have to say, that after trying both tutorials on TFN, I ended up using the one in After Effects - it just looks smoother to me. Keyframes are a gift from the Force...
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Post by devineoin on Jun 2, 2005 5:56:41 GMT -5
If I may throw in my two cents:
As a cinematographer/editor, I've got a little bit of experience in what programs do what in the world of video, and I have to agree with the post directly above...
If you can use a program like AfterFX, Shake, or Combustion--do it! The fact that you don't have to draw every single frame is a God send. If nothing else, you're mask is already there on every frame and you can just change what little needs to be changed on every frame, instead of redrawing your mask/effects.
I haven't seen any decent FX tutorials out there, just the photoshop ones, so for those of you who want to give this a try, when you get your battle sequence edited the way you want and you're ready to add the sabers, just export that little piece as an uncompressed file, instead of a DV compressed file or a sequence. Then you can open that uncompressed up in AfterFX, do your thing and then reexport as uncompressed again. Then just replace the original sequence with the new file. That way you're not going through lossy compression cycles. If you don't have the horsepower or drive space for uncompressed use a lossless codec like the Huffyuv codec, so there's no degredation of the footage.
Of course, if you're using Premier Pro with AfterFX (or possibly even FCP on the Mac) I believe you can just save that scene as it's own sequence and open up that sequence in AfterFX. I'm not 100% on that cuz I don't use either program to edit with. Sony Vegas baby! All the features, half the price...
While I probably don't have the time to rotoscope footage for someone, if you need some help or advice, shoot me an email or pm and I'll see what I can do.
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