Advanced visual effects question…

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Advanced visual effects question…

Posted by Matt Schwartz on February 2, 2014 at 5:59 am

Hi, this is way over my head, so I am putting it out there. I am shooting a webseries in HD and one scene involves a girl running down a narrow enclosed corridor towards a futuristic hatch-doorway like something you might find on some Star Wars set. Ok so my idea was to get a digital artist to create a custom designed image of this futuristic hatchway, and then print THAT in VERY large format and install it except the opening is 10×12′ and that size print would cost huge $$, so I am opting for a visual effects solution. I can have my graphic artist custom create the image and then overlay or mask that onto the main sequence timeline and it all gets kind of hazy at this point as the .jpg hatchway image would have to move fluidly and flawlessly through the entire timeline in all possible ways i.e. get smaller or larger as needed / be consistent in perspective – does keyframing even work in this situation? This may be the realm of motion graphics and not Vegas – any input here recommended.

Steve Rhoden replied 12 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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Steve Rhoden
February 2, 2014 at 8:34 am

This may be the realm of motion graphics and not Vegas

That is exactly correct Matte. Do you have After Effects or Hitfilm?
Listen, Vegas is very versatile, but it cant do everything and when
doing advanced compositing, you need a compositor for that.

Steve Rhoden
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John Rofrano
February 2, 2014 at 1:09 pm

You could use Boris FX BCC Corner Pinning to map the hatchway unto your video.

Here is my tutorial from Boris TV on how it’s done using a moving truck and a road sign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxWtrMAZqcw

If that doesn’t work, then HitFilm Ultimate has the Mocha planar tracker built in. That is another great way to track something in perspective.

Both of these tools work inside of Vegas Pro.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

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Steve Rhoden
February 2, 2014 at 4:20 pm

Yes, You can look at Boris as well.

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Matt Schwartz
February 3, 2014 at 3:59 am

So is this all done post-rendering in Vegas? Do you re-render in Boris or whatever with the effect going? Is there any degradation issue?
Steve Rhoden
February 3, 2014 at 11:54 am

Boris is a Vegas plugin and Hitfilm is a stand-alone software
with a Vegas extension and compatibility. There is no degradation issue

Steve Rhoden
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John Rofrano
February 3, 2014 at 4:04 pm

Yea, this is all down inside of Vegas before rendering so there is no quality issue.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com
Steve Rhoden
February 4, 2014 at 4:02 am

I believe over time Hitfilm could grow to be a next big compositor.

Steve Rhoden
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