[Jerry Irving]

Sorry, jumped the gun.
try what Jorma Nippala suggested.

[Jerry Irving]

One way I would handle this is to create a region for each dance, render regions only using scripting, then combine as needed in DVDA.

[Jerry Irving]

One way to do this over any kind of text would be to create a gradient that conforms to desired illumination pattern & multiply over text only.

This can be done as follows:

Video tracks:

Track 1 = not a compositing child
-Track 2 = Compositing Child of track 1
-Track 3 = Compositing Child of track 1
Track 4 = not a compositing child (can contain whatever you want)
…
Track n

Video track contents:

Track 1 is empty (merely serving as parent of tracks 2 & 3).

Track 2:
– Insert color gradient & create a pattern of white over black that
conforms to desired illumination pattern.
– Set Track 2 Compositing Mode to Multiply

Track 3:
– Insert desired text

Track 4 – n: comprise background video over which text will appear.

[Jerry Irving]

duplicate post

[Jerry Irving]

‘Paint Dripping onto White Letters on Black BG’
One way to do it:

First, create a video of paint dripping onto white paper (paper area represents final screen area) until area of letters is fully painted as desired.

Second, create Sony Vegas project as follows:

Tracks:
1 Letters track, compositing parent, track composite mode Multiply, White Letters on black bg
->2 Paint Dripping, compositing child, track composite mode Source Alpha
3 Paint Dripping, track composite mode Source Alpha, (white bg masked to alpha-level zero)

On track 3, use composite level envelope to hide paint once it falls on letters (or, add a mask with keyframes in the pan/crop tool).

Use color corrector (secondary) to mask white bg to alpha-level zero:
-Insert color corrector (secondary) onto media, event, or track.
-On Custom tab, use ‘select effect range’ eyedropper to select white area.
-Set Alpha level to zero

[Jerry Irving]

Hi, Tatyana,

You can do the color graphic effect with Sony Noise Texture generated media plug-in. Take a look at that by inserting a video track and inserting generated media onto it. When the selection window displays, select Sony Noise Texture. It is keyframe-able, which will allow you to create changing textures. As Jeff said, decrease opacity to cause it to merely tint the video instead of displaying as an opaque graphic.

The Sony Noise Texture generator uses two colors and a pseudo-random frequency generator to vary the pattern. Select the colors & opacity you want & experiment with the ‘Frequency’ and ‘Noise parameters’ settings to create a similar look to the pattern in the video.

You can use a composite-level track envelope to control opacity, from transparent (invisible) to be maximum desired opacity on the main-timeline track that contains the generated media event.

I notice in the music video you refer to that there are some occasional effects similar to the Sony Film Effects FX Plug-in (simulated scratches & simulated dust) though this wasn’t specifically what you asked about.

Hope this helps,
Jerry

[Jerry Irving]

Hi, Ted,
I downloaded it this morning at about 7:00 am. it’s a pdf file.

Good luck,

Jerry

[Jerry Irving]

How about this option:

Have *one project* for all spots. Put all common content on its own track(s) (maybe within a track group). Then, for each spot, define track(s) (maybe within a track group) for the content that is specific to that spot only.

An easy way to do this is to create the first spot, making sure to use a separate track or track group for that any content that will be used in multiple spots. Then, for each subsequent spot, simply disable the tracks/track groups with content that is not pertinent to the current spot.

Then, to render spot ‘N’ (e.g. 1, 2, etc.):
-Make sure the common-content tracks/track groups are enabled,
-Enable spot N’s spot-specific track/track group,
-Disable all other spot-specific tracks/track groups
-Render the file

In the future, to build another spot for this series, simply add new spot-specific track(s)/track group(s) & render with the above steps.

Let me know if this doesn’t make sense & I’ll clarify. It’s a fairly simple concept.
Hope this helps,
Jerry

[Jerry Irving]

Hi, Steve,
Cool, thanks. 🙂
Jerry

[Jerry Irving]

Hi, Steve,
If your comment was related to my mention of spaces, I was actually wanting the url to appear as TEXT rather than a link, hence, I inserted spaces to prevent the automatic display as a link. 🙂

If your comment wasn’t related to my post, then nevermind. 🙂

Thanks,

Jerry