-
How to Make Avid Effects???
I’m new to Avid and I was wondering how to make some cool effects. The default ones that come with Avid are terrible and the cost makes Sapphire out of the question so is there a way to tweak or nest some of the avid effects to actually make them cool? Is there a website or book that teaches this?
-
19 Replies
-
this is that site, brother.
What effects do you have in mind? Imagination and creativity are the basic requirements. Many ways to do the same tasks. Get spacific and you’ll get plenty of help here.
Let us know what tools you have.
-
I’m on a dual Xenon with Avid Xpress Pro. I’m mostly interested in television transitions. Give me a few new cools ones. How to I combine two or more to make a good one from the default effects and save it?
Here is a great example of a cheesy effect that I DON’T want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7EHjKgi1Jw
-
RP,
Do you have Boris FX or RED (also known as Avid FX)? If so, apply a Boris transition effect on an edit in your timeline and then look through the Boris library browser. You will find tons of great effects and tons of cheesy effects that are infinately customizable. The great thing is that with the library browser, you can see exactly how the effect will look on your video. If you want to tweak the effect a bit, you can do so and save it as yet another effect, there for you to use again and again.Regards,
Joe Womble
-
Dont have Boris!
-
I’m a little fuzzy on what you’d call television transitions but a quick easy nice one is to use a resize effect over a cut. You can make start 4 frames before the cut, end 4 frames after the cut and make a keyframe in the middle (on the cut) scaled up to 150%. This makes asnap zoom effect on the outgoing and incoming shots. I also use alot of glow effects this way. Tear into BCC glow using the same principal descibed above and se if ya don’t get some cool results.
Also, don’t leave out the good ole 10 frame dissolve. Still the trans I use the most. -
Television transitions / effects I’m referring to are seen on Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, VH1, Extra, MTV, and E!.
-
Are you referring to the wipes that are used to transition between the host and show segments? Like the big ET that wipes across the screen, revealing the start of a segment on some hollywood celeb?
Erik
-
I think you are referring to transitions with custom mattes.
I have an animatte tutorial here on the cow that may help. You can apply the same principal with masks in AE.
You can get quick transitions out of the native avid but you’ll have to dig deeper for cooler transitions. If I have five minutes or so, I do em in Avid but, given time, an effects application is the place to go to create cool eye candy.
Often, you can create your art in Photoshop then fly some layers around in after effects and get whatcher lookin for. I keep em open in every session.
I do recomend Sapphire effects. They add alot of power to a bare-bones avid with BCC buggage. To me, all avids are naked without em. -
Sapphire is not in my budget.
-
What do you have available? Keep in mind that Avid is primarily an NLE and not a motion graphics/compositing application. Most of the cool stuff you see on TV have been created with 3rd party applications.
Erik
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up