Inserting muzzle shots

[Steve Rhoden]

You are welcome..just remember to download the trial of sony vegas
platinum first and give it a whirl and some tests.

Steve Rhoden
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.

[Rob James]

Jesse, Fuddam’s detailed description is bang on, and Steve’s advice about Particle Illusions and Detonation Films are both excellent! I’ve had great success with both. But you must get Particle Illusions it’s unreal, you can even have muzzle shots, with shells flying out of the chamber (with or without smoke). Hard to top that!! All you need is a toy gun prop, and your movies will look incredible. Get all of the free Detonation Film stuff, blood explosions…………everything you’ll ever need, even rain and snow. Have fun…………if you can dream it, you can do it with those products………and Vegas of course.

Rob,
https://www.robjames.net/

[Jesse Davenport]

So Action Movie Essentials would be the best way to go?

[Steve Rhoden]

Well then yes…if you are working with limited budget.

Steve Rhoden
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.

[Jesse Davenport]

Is it possible to have muzzle flashes go in different directions? Or can they just go left to right?

[Adam Rose esq.]

use pan/crop to change size / rotation.

can also right click the image inside pan/crop to flip the image horizontally etc

can do the same with Track Motion if want to affect all clips on the track the same way, of course.

[Jesse Davenport]

Sorry if I seem really stupid about all of this, but this is my first time working with muzzle flashes. I downloaded the trial of Sony Vegas, and I downloaded a muzzle flash from Detonation Films, but it was in avi. and Vegas wouldn’t open it. Anyone know where I can get one real quick so I can test this all out?

[Adam Rose esq.]

um…………sounds like you’re doing something fundamentally wrong. Sounds like you’re trying to OPEN the avi, instead of simply dropping it on to the timeline, from either the Vegas explorer tab, or from a windows explorer window.

detonation .avi’s are plain DV. nothing strange/unusual about them

[Jesse Davenport]

I’m having trouble. There’s a short clip of a muzzle flash in a black background with the flash in the middle. How am I supposed to work with that?

[Adam Rose esq.]

ok, I had a look. Because Detonation supply it as AVI, they don’t necessarily include an alpha channel (i.e. RGB vs RGB+). Anyway, going to have to use a different method.

1) choose CHROMA KEYER from your video fx tab, and drop any of the presets on to the muzzle flash clip

2) it will look strange but that’s because we have to tell vegas to lose anything black, not blue or red etc. Either set the RGB values each to 0, or drag the colour slider into black

3) then drag the LOW THRESHOLD slider to the far right

the text for Detonation Films will still be visible, so use the regular PAN/CROP tool of that clip to crop it out.

oh, and once you’ve cropped it appropriately (with stretch to full screen turned off), you’ll have to use Track Motion to position it correctly