• VEGAS Pro

  lightsabre fx

  Posted by Franss on August 15, 2005 at 9:04 am

  Hi,
  Im playing arround with some effects in Vegas
  Have anyone tried to do a lightsabre effect?
  if so, how???

  Thanks

  Mary Waitrovich replied 20 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

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  Neblackshirts

  August 15, 2005 at 2:48 pm

  If you want to do a lightsabre fx, get the program Particle Illusions…great lightsabre effect with this software…and easy to use!
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  Mike Kujbida

  August 15, 2005 at 3:14 pm

  You could also try EffectsLabDV, formerly AlamDV.
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  Mary Waitrovich

  August 15, 2005 at 7:03 pm

  If you want to just use Vegas, there are a couple of ways.
  One, you can hold an object as a handle and swing it around. Then put a track above that track, put a still of your light saber rod on and keyframe it with track motion to match. This is tedious but can look great.
  Two, hold a blue or green rod and swing it. Then, chromakey it out and have your light saber color come though from the track below. I haven’t tried this method, but someone told me it works.

  A very important aspect of this is to download some good light saber sound effects to go with it.

  Have fun,
  Mary Waitrovich
  UW-Madison

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