Jigsaw effect question

[Edward Troxel]

I pointed you to someone who had done a similar thing. His name is steve roffler. If you send me an e-mail, I will forward your request to him.

Edward Troxel

[Tinfish]

Thanks Edward,

Ive sent a PM to you via your website.

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[Edward Troxel]

I’ve forwarded your e-mail.

Edward Troxel

[Russell Robertson]

Tin,

When you get the answer for creating this effect, would you please post it? I’m sure there are others, like myself, who would appreciate how to produce this as well.

Thanks in advance.

RR

[Steve Roffler]

I’ve made a similar effect which you can see here:

https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/%7Esr…al%20puzzle.wmv

and a shorter version

https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/%7Esr…zle%20fast3.wmv

Unfortunately I don’t have a VEG file for this. It was so big (several hundred video tracks) that I had to continually render to new tracks as I went along.

If you want to do something similar, just get a picture of a puzzle (with less pieces, maybe 50 or even fewer). Use the Bezier mask to cut each piece on a separate track. Then you can use the 3D motion to make each piece independently move in or out of the field of vision. If you don’t have to render to new tracks, you could save the VEG file and then change the photo at will. I rendered first in uncompressed AVI to prevent degradation but still got some in the final output. There is probably a much easier way to do this but this is how I did it with Vegas 5.

Good luck.

Steve

PDX10, EOS10D

[Peter Wright]

Use a Paint program to create your jigsaw design as pngs, so that alpha transparency is preserved –

Start with a blank frame, save as J01, draw the first jigsaw piece, save as J02, draw the second, save as J03 etc and continue till you have a totally black frame, let’s say J12.

Now put J12 followed by J11 followed by J10 , then J09 etc on the track above your video. Duration of each will depend upon desired timing, music etc.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Peter Wright]

Draw the jigsaw pieces in BLACK.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Steve Roffler]

I’m not sure those links are working so here are the full links

https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/%7Esroff/puzzle/final%20puzzle.wmv

https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/%7Esroff/puzzle/puzzle%20fast3.wmv

Steve

PDX10, EOS10D

[Tinfish]

Thanks guys for all the usefull feedback.

Once again this is a superb forum for pearls of Vegas wisdom.

[Edward Troxel]

Steve, I still have the “puzzle explode 148.veg” file and associated “184_8425.jpg” image.

Edward Troxel