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  • Sniper composite.

    Posted by Glenn Birks on January 14, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    Hello,
    I am going to be editing a scene where a police sniper is tracking a suspect, and I am going to be cutting shots from 3rd to first person perspectives and wondered how good it would look to have a shot from the scope that displayed the relevant markings to composite over an infared style plate.
    Is there anything like this available ?

    Thanks,

    Glenn

    Theo Van laar replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
  • 8 Replies
  • Theo Van laar

    January 14, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    What about taking a screenshot from Call of Duty?

    Theo

  • Bob Peterson

    January 15, 2010 at 12:25 am

    Are you suggesting a screen shot as an example of how to do this, or as something that can be incorporated in one’s own video?

  • Theo Van laar

    January 15, 2010 at 7:36 am

    Both are possible. He can either try to replicate it in Photoshop or just mask it out in photoshop.

    Theo

  • Bob Peterson

    January 15, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    A screen shot of a commercial video incorporated into one’s own video is clearly a copyright violation. It should not be done.

  • Theo Van laar

    January 15, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    Call of Duty is not a commercial video… (it’s even not a video at all, although you still might be right about the copyright, Glenn should look into that for sure.)

    Theo

  • Bob Peterson

    January 15, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    Ahhhh, my ignorance and bad assumption. Yup, it’s covered big time by copyright.

  • Glenn Birks

    January 16, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    Thanks for the feedback,
    I posted a similar post onto the Vegas pro forums and somebody offered me a photoshop finished image all ready to drop into the timeline, its just a matter of working out the parent relationship and the composite, as I am going to be altering the plate colour to represent either night sight or IR, the problem is now finding how to crop the sight and animate it as though it is actually tracking the target, as I cant find a circle tool in the crop, just the pen tool, its kinda messy outlining the sights.

    Thanks again,

    Glenn

  • Theo Van laar

    January 16, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    If you need a circular crop, you canuse the cookie cutter FX

    Theo

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