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camera shot plug in
Anyone know where I can find a plug in that will allow me to do a camera snap shot of a frame?? I know I could do a vertical split slide, than freeze frame the frame I want it to stop on, and add the sound of a camera snapping,…but I’m trying to avoid all that. Feel free to make me feel stupid if need be. Thanks.
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6 Replies
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Is not a stupid idea at all. A plug-in that freeze, de-interlace and put the sound of a still camara. If you heard about please let me know:-)
Rafael -
Find a cheap camera sound and have that ready in your bin. (perhaps from sounddogs.com)
Shift N makes a freeze frame from wherever you are in your timeline, viewer, whatever.
Edit the freeze frame into the video track and put a dip to color dissolve on it and set the transition to start on the edit (control-click on the transition, choose transition alignment > start on edit). Double click the transition and change the threshold to 0 and the color to white. Once you get the timing for what you want, drag that transition to your favorites folder and rename it flash or something. That way, the next time you need it to add that transition to the beginning of your freeze frame and add the sound effect and away you go.
Once you get it setup, it’s simple.
Jeremy
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Awesome! Thanks so much. This definitely yields the desired effect. I really appreciate your help.
-jake -
No worries.
Have some fun.
Jeremy
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I have a little add on to your method. Let me know if ya like it:
Put a horizontal split slide on the beginning of the single frame (one of which you took a snap shot of via Shift + N). Then export it by itself (obviously with same attributes as source sequence) & put it back in the sequence. Now, speed it up by about %500 and reverse it. Shorten it up so the clip is now only the duration of the split slide. Throw some opacity on it (hmmmm, I put %40 opacity) and place it on the video track above the original snapshot. Line it up right in the middle of the original dip to color dissolve transition, sync it with the shutter sound audio, and there ya go. I’m not claiming this is the best method, but figured I’d share my experimentation. Thanks again.
-jake -
And if you are running FCP & Studio installed on your machine you already have the camera sound effect. Just do a Finder search under “camera” and you will have them as .aiff files.
Tom
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