• VEGAS Pro

  video transition: slide puzzles

  Posted by Leigh Harrington on November 15, 2007 at 6:16 pm

  Hello all,

  I am working on an informational video(using Vegas 6) and would love to have a transition that looks like a slide puzzle (a.k.a. thumb puzzle, or tile puzzle). Have you ever seen a plug-in or something that would do this. I’ve looked on the Web, but didn’t see anything. I’ve never created a transition before (always used one in the software — Vegas or VT) so I don’t think now is a good time to try to figure out how to build one from scratch, plus I don’t think I have the type of software needed to build one.

  The basic idea is that throughout the video (between segments) the tiles would move to reveal more of the picture so that by the end of the video it all comes together and the viewer gets a clear picture of what we’ve been talking about.

  Would love to hear any thoughts or ideas you may have on the subject!

  Laszlo Kovacs replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Laszlo Kovacs

  November 16, 2007 at 5:08 pm

  Not sure this is what you’re asking for, just an idea:

  Draw in your graphic editor an array of sqares, which will fill the screen (let’s say 720*576 for PAL – black background, white lines). Save the empty array as img000.tga.
  Then fill one of the sqares with white and save it as img001.tga.
  Repeat until all of the squares are white, then go to Vegas, and import your img’s as image sequence.
  Now you have goup of frames starting from black to white.
  Ctrl-drag the sides of this event to make it the desired length.
  Put this event on a track above your video, make that track master, your video child track, the master’s comositing mode set to multiply/mask.
  Apply the effect “mask generator” to your event with those squares.
  So, where you have painted white, your video in the child track appears, where you have black, the video behind is showing (thanks to the mask generator).

  I used very similar technic in this little clip:
  https://video.kovacsolt.hu/videos/logo.wmv

  Of course your squares don’t have to be really square, they can circles of different sizes, or they can be puzzle shapes…

  I hope I was clear enough, and was able to help.

  By(t)e

  K.L.

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