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  • Heat Wave/ Heat Haze effect

    Posted by Justin Coolidge on April 6, 2012 at 12:45 am

    how would I achieve a heat wave effect in Sony Vegas??? all the results that Google brings up either lead to files that are broken links or doesn’t explain how to accomplish this!!! can someone tell me how this can be done either with a file or any other way to accomplish this…

    Andrew Lenczycki replied 14 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Andrew Lenczycki

    April 10, 2012 at 8:08 pm

    Depending on how realistic and detailed you need to get, I quickly played with the “Sony Wave” VFX, which I applied to a test video clip. As a starting place, every 5 seconds I put down a keyframe. All the odd (1st, 3rd, 5th, etc.) keyframes had all Wave controls set to 0.0. Every even (2nd, 4th, 6th, etc.) keyframe I set the Horizontal Waves = 10.0 and the Horizontal Amplitude to 0.003. All keyframes were set to the Smooth Fade transition type (right-click the keyframe for context menu). I then added a second “Sony Wave” VFX to the same clip and keyframed it exactly the same, except for this, I changed the Vertical rather than the Horizontal values. I think this could be tweaked a bit more to get a usable simulation of the heat wave you want.

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