Box blur/feathering

[Phil Peacock]

Very nice!! But now you have got me thinking and it’s not yet come to me. Bugger.

[Fien Leysen]

Very frustrating that I can’t figure it out… I know I made this years ago, when I wasn’t that good at editing – so I must have used workarounds and strange solutions that somehow magically looked good… 🙂

[Phil Peacock]

OK. It seems to me, and how I would do it too, is that, since each of your little PIPs are not quite the same size as the others, you have placed each PIP on its own track and, using track motion, you have resized and repositioned each PIP.

The effect itself is too quick for my poor ol’ eyes to properly analyse but I would suggest a good starting point would be to place your video event (each single PIP) on the middle of three video tracks. Top track would be a solid white and below track, solid black.

Then, using masking, feathering and keyframes in the pan/crop VFX of the top track, create your ‘popping’ effect.

I was puzzled by your reference to blurring which made me take a closer inspection I now see that each ‘pop’ effect takes place over a larger area than the original PIP. Since this is the case, you could still use the above method but now using only two tracks (the black and the white ones) and lay them over the original PIP which would, at the same time, quickly fade to black on its own track.

I hope you can understand all this. It means quite a large number of tracks but it is quite simple. Somewhat tedious I guess although it wouldn’t take long really. I love your effect and it lends itself to a quick template .veg file which could later be adapted to incorporate any particular video tracks/themes that you may need.

Good luck with this and let us know how you go.

[John Rofrano]

It looks like you can get something very close using Pan/Crop with Sony Glow. Set the color to white, the Glow Percent to 1.0 and keyframe the Intensity as you fade the event out. This will make the glow blume around the event white it fades.

~jr

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[Fien Leysen]

Yes!! I remember using solids… 🙂
Thanks so much!! It makes sense now.
Quite a tedious job indeed, as long as Vegas doesn’t crash, I should be able to pull it off.

I’m giving it a go, will let you know when it’s finished.
Looks like I’m getting a similar effect using a solid white on top of each PIP, adding a blurred border to the solid, and have it fade in, while the PIP fades out, as well as increase in size a tad.

Still confused as to how I did the blurred effect originally – the original clip seems to have some kind of shutter effect on each solid.. And the solid also looks more vignette shaped than rectangular.

I hope the effect is similar 🙂

Thanks for the help! I’ll remember to write things down from now on!
Making a template file is a really good idea!

[Phil Peacock]

Now this is really getting to me, ha ha. I LOVE the effect but, even using John’s suggested Glow vfx I am still not getting anything like what you achieved previously.

I still think that the flash/pop effects are overlaid on their own tracks (ie, are not an effect added to the PIP itself). Not sure what you meant by ‘I just want the box edges for each frame to disappear, without the box growing smaller because of it.‘ Maybe the overlaid tracks will achieve this?

And I am sure you know that you can edit the shape of your mask so it appears more ‘vignette’ shaped as you put it. I have adjusted the transparency of the top ‘white’ track too, to try and emulate your effect. Getting pretty close but not good enough I’m afraid.

So back to you now. Over and out.

[Fien Leysen]

Haha, thanks for obsessing over it a little with me! I feel less silly, not being the only one who can’t figure it out.
Made something similar, which seems to be working out okay:

Similar Intro

I left the middle blank to maybe add the effect of having each new video pop in, while the old ones pop out.

I made an extra one with all PIPS, but of course, something went wrong. For some reason, Vegas has added these little underlying flashes of other PIPS or even the entire “all-PIPs” video. Difficult to explain, so here’s the video:

Failed at Something

I’ve been racking my brain about this one now.. Before moving on to perfect the flashes. I’ve checked all the FXs, and the motion tracking for each video track, all seems to be in order. The strange thing about it is that when I mute a videotrack of one of the four middle PIPs, the problem is gone. Could this have anything to do with framerate settings? Or is it a possible glitch?

[Phil Peacock]

You like throwing in some curly ones don’t you! Ha ha.

Well, my initial reaction was, there are gaps on the timeline and we are seeing your underlying solid white track showing for a few frames. But I don’t think this would be the case because of how you have constructed the project, presumably with 26 plus tracks with individual PIPs? And I still think the original flashes were done on a seperate track overlay, rather than on the same track carrying the PIP. The flashes appeared to be less ‘confined’, as it were, to the actual restraints of the image size of the PIP.

So, what is happening?! And you will hate me for saying this but your original intro is still the best! If I could slow down your sample video it might be easier to see what is going on but I am afraid it is much too quick to analyse in any way. Can you post the .veg file. What version of Vegas are you using?

So you ain’t finished yet!

[Fien Leysen]

It’s been ages (some family stuff and starting a theater course). And yes, the frustration of not figuring it out :). But I’m trying to get back into it. Thanks for all your help already! Would completely understand if you’re over it by now, but I’ll be posting the veg file and trying to figure it out, once more 🙂

I don’t see any gaps on the timeline… And I’m wondering how I would have done the flashes on a separate track overlay. A solid white of the same size perhaps, feathered and low opacity to increased opacity along with an increasing brightness curve? I’ll be tinkering with it some more. I’ll keep you posted!

(Vegas Pro 12.0)

6650_framesintronewb.veg.zip

[Phil Peacock]

Ha ha. Good to see you haven’t given up yet!

I am afraid I have only pent a little time with your veg file, trying to get a likeness to your ‘pops’, but without getting close enough yet.

And unfortunately I am off to Bali for 3 or 4 months tomorrow so won’t be able to continue with the heavy stuff, i.e my desktop computer.

Still very interested to see how you go though and if I get the chance, I will certainly be trying a bit harder myself!!

Good luck and keep us posted, definitely.