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  Shake on it!.

  Posted by Vegasarian on May 21, 2006 at 7:50 am

  I know this is a bit arse about face as we normally try to minimise camera shake but my problem is……….
  I have some library foorage of an American GI discussing his situation in Vietnam. There is the sound of heavy bombing in the background and one particularly loud explosion nearby as he speaks. Either this guy was talking to a locked off camera or his cameraman was so ‘out of it’ he should have been in a care home. Anyway, I digress….I want to add a mild camera shake effect to the video adjacent to the sound of the explosion. Anyone?. Replies shouldnt include the word ‘Excalibur.

  Todor Fay replied 19 years, 12 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Don Bloom

  May 21, 2006 at 12:41 pm

  Well to address 2 issues here. FIRST to get the shake look, you can either use keyframing in PAN/CROP and move it around yourself or look around and find the VEGASQUAKE script which was free. I don’t recall where I found it a couple of years ago but it should do the trick.
  As for the bombing and shaking and the camerapeople not moving around, having spent a “bit of time” in RVN I can tell you from personal experience that 1) after a while you got to be able to tell which were out going and which were incoming, it was the latter that “shook” you. 2nd, I doubt sriously that the camera was locked down, I NEVER saw that and I saw a few TV crews come thru but the camera operators were for the most part some of the balliest people I even met. Some were vets of Korea, some WWll, some just had spent a lot of time in RVN and knew when to run and cover and when they didn’t need to. More than a few neople on these crews were wounded and some were KIA-and all they had to shoot back with was a camera.
  Don’t make the shake too pronounced because unless it was a 1000 pounder landing with in a kilometer they would have heard it but probably not felt it.

  Don
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  Todor Fay

  May 22, 2006 at 1:34 am

  You might also try our Motion Effects plugins. Two of the effects, Earthquake and Active Camera, should do a good job of simulating that movement for you. You can read up about these and download unlimited trial versions from https://www.newbluefx.com/motion_effects.html.

  BTW, If you are interested in that and Art Effects, we have an introductory 25% discount for our Vegas users. (use coupon CPNINTROVIDEO)

  Thanks,

  Todor
  NewBlue, Inc.

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