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3d image manipulation / flag waving
I have some 3d images (google sketchup) of some flag, and I was wondering with any of the effects/plugins in pro 10 would anybody be able suggest if it is possible to simulate a flag waving in the wind. I have to put some effects together for a show, and one of them requires some national flags waving in the wind and then rotating the image in 3d space as if teh camera were rotating around the flags…
Any suggestions welcome. I recently upgraded from VMS to Pro after trying the trial and now looking forward to a whole new learning experinece…
Thanks
STBO
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Vegas Pro alone doesn’t have an 3D effects that can do this. You could add the Sony Wave plug-in to an event but it’s a 2D wave and you definitely couldn’t rotate around it.
The Boris Continuum Complete 7 plug-in for Vegas Pro 10 has 3D Layer Deformers that can simulate a waving flag pretty good and you can rotate a camera around them because they are true 3D objects. It just doesn’t have the ability to pin one size down like where the flag meets the flag pole so it’s not quite what you want but it may do.
Boris BLUE has a 3D flag as one of it’s presets and it’s very convincing. You can even import real 3D objects into Boris BLUE. It does not, however, interface with Vegas so you would have to render these flags out with an alpha channel to bring them into Vegas.
You could also just use a free 3D program like Blender to make the flags and render them out and bring them into Vegas. Just make sure that you render them with an alpha channel so that you can easily remove the background and just leave the flag.
~jr
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Jihn,
Many thanks for the suggestions – great starting points.
I had had a look at blender recently – wow that is one busy interface- you kind of get the feeling that it is sitting their growling at you waiting to snap at you if you try to use it…
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