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FXhome VisionLab Studio + Vegas integration (specialFX)
Hi, wonder if anyone has experienced big problems like this.
Here was the plan.
Export hidef miniDV footage from 1080i camcorder (comes in M2T files) – edit the whole movie in Sony Vegas. Render out the small parts in the vegas project that require special fx (ie particles, light sabres, gun effects) – import those rendered files into FXHome Lab – add in the FX – re-render out of FXHome with minimal quality loss and import back into Vegas. Render out the WHOLE vegas project as hidef file ready for blu-ray.Heres what happened: FXHome Labs does not see M2T files…so native hidef format from camera was not incoming. Rendered out the small clip (that requires the special FX) from Vegas as a AVI instead (using template: 1080-59i-YUV) – clip judders like mad. Cannot play it in VLC, GOM or any other player properly…it stops and starts as if my mega fast PC is having issues playing it. FXHome Labs sits for 20mins trying to import before I kill it.
Exported the footage out of Vegas in Standard Definition (PAL DV – AVI File) – FXHome labs imports this fine. Add the special FX. Now re-rendered in FXHome labs using their PAL WideScreen DV settings. Re-imported into Vegas. Aspect ratio is not “exactly” right – bit squashed – so stretched out footage to fit (which is not a good thing). Burnt to DVD. End result ok, but not HiDef as required.
Another method was…export the specialFX from FXHome without the original Vegas footage included but instead with a darky green background under neath the FXHome Lab special FXs. Problem is that when this is imorted into vegas – using Chroma Key in Vegas does not give the same quality to the FX as did when they were added to the actual footage in FXHome lab.
Tell me…has anyone here who ever uses Vegas ever had the need to create Light Sabres/ GUnShot Effects / Blasts / Fire into their footage? If so…how on earth is everybody out there doing it?
Is there some special plugin for Vegas? I saw another software demo’ed – called Particle Illusion. This again relies on Chroma Keying in Vegas.
I am very grateful for your ideas and feedback.
JillSo it seems that there is no way for me to import a HiDef clip out of
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Tell me…has anyone here who ever uses Vegas ever had the need to create Light Sabres/ GUnShot Effects / Blasts / Fire into their footage? If so…how on earth is everybody out there doing it?
I use the Quicktime Animation codec for all special FX but I do my special FX in After Effects so I don’t know if FXHome Lab will use/create these but the QT Animation codec is 32-bit so it retains the alpha channel for transparency and Vegas can use this alpha channel for compositing (no need to use chroma key).
~jr
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Hi,
With Particle Illusion you can pull your files from Vegas to PI-add effects- turn off the background (leaving only the particles on the stage with a transparent BG)- and then pull just the particles into Vegas. No need to Chroma Key. I tested both FX Home Effects Lab Pro and Particle Illusion 3.0 and settled on Particle Illusion. -
Hi,
I would really appreciate if you can explain how you got the particles into vegas without the background. In Particle Illusion, I rendered as a Full frames uncompressed AVI – this then gave me the option under “alpha channels” to remove the black background from RGB channels (is this correct so far?)
However, then I open the rendered file in vegas…it still has a black background.
Thankyou very much for this
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However, then I open the rendered file in vegas…it still has a black background.
Right-click the event, go to the Media tab and enable the Alpha Channel. It defaults to “none” for AVI files. Make it Straight (unmatted).
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Hi,
Also, in Particle Illusion look at the top left of the screen- the symbol “BG” with the red x through it-click it to turn the background (Video) off. Then render out. I use Lagarith codec. Be sure to configure it as RGBA-to enable alpha channel. Then, as John said, enable alpha channel in Vegas.
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