Trying to create the allusion

[Stephen Smith]

I would use the Bezier tool to draw the shape. Then I would go to the Inspector, Shape, Style. change the Fill Mode from Color to Gradient and you will be able to achieve the same look.

Stephen Smith

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[Bruce Breidbart]

Stephen I’m a big fan, even own your Motion dvd, but I’m a visual guy could you send me some screen shots or something. I initially started with a rectangle and added points( same idea as the bezier tool i think ? ). The bottom was easy, one extra point that I lifted up. My problem is with the top section. Should I be changing from linear to smooth on the points ? There looks like there might be an indent filter,
but maybe it’s just a copy of the original rectangle reduced in size and outlined filled or both.

thanks again

BB

[Stephen Smith]

Thanks for purchasing my DVD. Here is a link to a quick tutorial I made to show you one way you can do it. Be sure to set the video to “Full Size Compressed” if it looks low quality:

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/gradient-in-motion-sample

Hope this helps and best of luck.

Stephen Smith

Utah Video Productions

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[Stephen Smith]

Glad it worked out. Happy to help.

Stephen Smith

Utah Video Productions

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[Bruce Breidbart]

Stephen I followed the link to our Vimeo page and “Italy time lapse ” Molto Bello. I hope your shooting didn’t interfere to much with the vacation.
But now I have more questions.
1) what did you shoot with ? You didn’t bring a camera slider on vacation did you ?

2) luv the transitions, did you make them or are they available to purchase ? it looked like light leaks from a projector hiding transitions, maybe ?

3) what’s the secrete to the time lapse that ends on a freeze of you with the camera push ?

Great Job.

BB

[Stephen Smith]

Bruce, Molte grazie.

1. I shot with the Cannon T2i. I have an intervalometer that attaches to my camera so I can set it to take lots of photo over a distance of time. I didn’t bring a slider and added the moves in After Effects.

2. I built some of the transitions in Motion and they can be purchased here on the COW: https://stockyard.creativecow.net/project-files/4812_light-leak-and-film-flash-template

I’m working on updating my Light Leak transitions.

3. This was my first real attempt at Time lapse photography and a learned a lot from the experience and will do an even better job my next go around. For the freeze frame I walked in front of the camera once I new I had enough photos and stood there for about three photos and then did the move in After Effects.

Stephen Smith

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[Bruce Breidbart]

Thanks
” I shot with the Cannon T2i. I have an intervalometer that attaches to my camera so I can set it to take lots of photo over a distance of time. I didn’t bring a slider and added the moves in After Effects.

Were you shooting hundreds of photo’s or close to a thousand ? You’ve got me interested, I need to do some more research to see if I can shoot jpegs & how long an interval to use ?

Can I assume Motion can handle the time lapse as a image sequence and adjust the timing in the timing pane ?

Can Motion recreate those camera moves you did in after effects ?

” I built some of the transitions in Motion and they can be purchased here on the COW”
I guess it’s the combination with the transitions underneath the light leaks that makes the effect works so seamlessly. Was that done with Motion ?
Not sure the template is compatible with Motion 5 ?

Thanks for all your help

BB

[Stephen Smith]

For my Italy Time lapse video each time lapse was about 5 seconds x 24 frames = 120 frames. However I did a lot of time lapses and the amount of pictures I took really added up. At night 5 seconds would take me about an hour during the day 5 to 20 minutes.

All of the camera moves I did in After Effects could be done in Motion. Check out this spot I did in Apple’s Motion: https://vimeo.com/28956907

As for the Light Leak template I built in Motion, I only built it as a template so people could alter the light leak if they wanted to. What you do is take the video and place it above your clip in FCP and add a Screen or Add blend mode to the Light Leak clip or project file and it give it the look just like in my Italy Time lapse video.

Hope this helps and best of luck.

Stephen Smith

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[Bruce Breidbart]

Thanks again for getting back so quickly and all your help.
1) This weekend I’m going to try my first time-lapse, I guess there is a lot of trial & error.
2) Nice job on the spot ( vimeo.com)
3) I think I’ve watched your Italian video at least 20X’s, 15x times just the first 3 shots.
I kept saying to myself that there must be a special transition going on underneath the light leak.
Now I’m thinking just cuts with speed changes/ speed reversal, a text that is moving off the screen and the light leaks. Am I getting closer ? It looks great. There is so much going on, yet so subtle.
4) I’ve got a lot to learn about Motions camera/3D, and now I’ve got something to simulate. Thanks
5) With your help I’ve gotten an acceptable gradient, boy is that tool exceptional. I’m now trying to create that inner border of the red banner. I’ve tried the indent filter & the drop shadow but non create the same effect. What am I mission ?

thanks
BB

[Stephen Smith]

1. That is what I did. I ran two test before I went to Italy and the first one didn’t work at all. I learned from that and got better.

2-3. Thanks.

5. Are you talking about the stitching on the ribbon or just the blue ribbon?

Stephen Smith

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