bcc glow tips?

[Grinner Hester]

I will post a complete tutorial on this very soon.
Often, I start with a 5 drame dissolve. I’ll hop on the track above that and add an edit 5 frames before that dissolve starts and add another edit 5 frames after the dissolve. I will then throw a glow on there is filler. I ofen just use it’s diffualt settings on an added keyframe right in the middle, directly over the middle of that 5 frame dissolve benieth it. I then pull down brightness, width and crank up the threshhold on the first and last keyframes. Just 3 keyframes in total and the first and last are the same. You can (and should) vary this after a while so things don’t get repetitive. Aspect changes, ect. You can even “flicker” it a bit before the transitions with a longer length of filler effect and added keyframes.
Imagination is key. It’s important to imitate looks to ensure capabilities and hone savvyness but it’s just as importent to then add a little something so they be copying you next time.

[Oakmozart]

Cool idea, Grinner…I’ll have to try this.

Thanks.

[Milton Hockman]

thanks for helping me out grinner.

i am not at my computer to try you effect but am in understanding correctly…the first and last keyframes are set to what?? i would imagine they would be set to 0 percent so the effect ramps up and then down. is that the case or no?

[Milton Hockman]

grinner,
not sure if you saw the movie, The Secret, but i think they use the exact trick. I stepped through it frame by frame and it seems to be the same.

[Grinner Hester]

yes. You can tell the editor on the last flick had it saved in a bin and the just reused it again and again in The Secret. Ya can’t really do this with saved effects. They are saved as a time savor…a good fast starting point on a new effect… not to be used as the same anne effect over and over.