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National Treasure-like Credits
I would like to create credits for a project like the credits at the end of the movie National Treasure where the viewer appears to be traveling past the edge of the page of words and then you see the backside of that page. It is a very nice 3D effect.
There are multiple pages for this effect to really be effective and I have done some experimentation with the 3D track motion but it seems that I am not able to use the “screen” layer function so that you can see the multiple pages while editing/building in 3D mode. My credits pages all have sepia lettering on black background.
I would like the final product to appear that all the pages are “static” with some distance in-between the parallel spaces pages, layers somehow locked so the editor can move the camera through space, so each layer has a slightly different perspective (like a cube with a page on the front, one in the middle and one on the back) as you fly through the front and then look back at the backside of them all).
Does someone have a good tutorial source for creating this type 3D visual effect? Thanks in advance,
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[David Ferguson] “somehow locked so the editor can move the camera through space,”
The way you have to work with 3D track motion is opposite. Intead of moving the camera through a virtual environment, you have to move your virtual world past the camera.
One of the main concepts you need to master to achieve this is using parenting to move your layers in unison. For instance you can make a number of tracks children to an empty parent track. The plane of that track can be rotating, and thus whatever is happening to the child tracks happens within that rotating space.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Thank you very much Gary. That looks like the tickit!
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