CSI Glassy effects

[Grinner Hester]

You can grab a textured ebject with lots of opacity and simply run it left to right in front of the camera in LW. Play with different textures and levels of opacity for the object to get different results. You can even get reflactions and such, if desired.

[Milton Wershow]

Thank you very much for your time and direction. I have lightwave from old projects and I will follow your lead and work at it. I do like the CSI glassy effects runing verticaly across the screen. I just started a new stock clip library and I am getting into this editing so I can promote my clip vault.

I have crashed a few cars in my day doing stunts it is quite a high after impact. Helicopters has been always my passion.

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Thanks again and COW is sure a wonderful meeting place and more.

[Stephen Smith]

I’ve never used Lightwave but you may want to try this forum: https://forums.creativecow.net/lightwave
Best of luck.

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[Milton Wershow]

Steve thanks big time. You are truly a gracious person with taking the time to reply and most of all to care.

[Milton Wershow]

Please antoher question about lightwave. I use an editing software called Pinacle Studio 12 Ultimate. It does for me the kind of job I need for my purpose. With lightwave do you import a move file then work to build these glassy horizontal panels crossng the screen or front of the lw camera horizontaly? Then export it back to this Pinnacle? Or do you just build the effect in lw then export it into the editing software then overlay?

I hope that this question is not a bother.

thank you

[Mark Suszko]

I’m rusty in Lightwave, but if you want to get your video to look like a glass panel is in front of it and distorting it, using Lightwave, the way I would approach that is to import the video into Lightwave as an AVI, mapped onto a planar object, like projecting a movie on a screen, (or more like applying a decal to a wall, where the decal happens to be a motion picture) Like any texture map, just that its a video file, or it could also be sequential targas instead of an AVI…

Then make your glassy object and play with all the settings in your procedural materials to get the optical behavior you want. Position the virtual “glass” in front of the projected video “wall” and frame all this up using a virtual camera in Lightwave, you have perfect control over all the proportions, composition, motions, and etc. this way.

This is in many ways similar to how a person would do the projct in Aftereffects; we’re just using different tools and procedures to get to the same place, based on the hardware and software you’re already most familiar with.(Lightwave)

I would be concerned that just making a glass object and importing and layering that into your nonlinear editing program’s timeline may not retain the same optical distortion/refraction effects you seem to be looking for. AE or Lightwave would get you there, I think, no question.

[Milton Wershow]

Mark thank you for your time and guidance. At least you are rusty at lightwave for me i get confused with it. So I can import an AVI file into livghtwave yes there I t ried to look in the manual for importing files especialy video I was not lucky enough but still working at it.

the effect is glassy vertical panels moving across the horizonataly.

I know the camera but where to import the video is news to me
what you have three options to open lightwave.

My goal is to show that my video clips are up to snuff and help give examples what my footage or clips can do.
I am an old stuntman , director and producer and have little knowledge with editing but I am learning.

Yes I worry about returning it back into my digital editor which is pinacle studio 12. I can not express how deeply amazed how kind you have been and true for others who have taken the time.

I tried to download adobe after effects trial but I do believe it is not friendly with intergrated video card with motherboard. I do not want to take the chance that installing adobe with my desktop for it might not be friendlhy with my editor and I am not a computer wizzard.

I am going to print your info and see if I can follow your direction.
It is my pet advernture in terror lolol

Thanks again I will post my trail and errors lolol. The saga continues.

thanks again