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  • Steve Stone

    May 16, 2005 at 6:07 pm

    It looks like those flashes are created from a Library called Clip FX. They appear to be just stock film flashes. One neat way to achieve a film flash is with Sapphire Glow. Hope this helps.

    Steve Stone

    S t e v e S t o n e
    A n i m a t o r

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  • Chris Smith

    May 16, 2005 at 10:59 pm

    Half of the effect is in the keyframing. Those don’t even look like they are clipping anything or changing the speed like the stop/start of a film camera really does. If you just put a white solid over the footage and keyframed the opacity from 0 to 100 to 0 over a few frames, then changed your velocity curves to a peak (so it looks like a spike and not a triangle) you could simulate this movie. If you want it more like a film camera, do the same keyframe curve on a levels so the whites crush down and back up. But you’ll need to do the same to a hue/sat at the same time so the saturation doesn’t blow through the roof during the increased contrast. Then to make it even more like a film camera, do the same curve to a time remap so it speeds up then returns to normal at the same time.

    Chris Smith
    https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

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