An explosion...

How would you get the picture from the video to picture by picture animate it?

Also, how do you pause/stop the frame? Say for ten seconds, a still shot of the video, likes its been paused?

Please, only one question at a time. Explain your first question a bit more so I know where you are coming from.

Sorry...

Q. 1 I want to know how to do picture by picture animation for an explosion on say a door. I take a video of me running out of the door and then want it to explode behind me. How do i change the frames in the video?


Q. 2 How do i make it stop on a frame for about 5-10 seconds? Like a still picture but from the video.

Hope this makes more sence for you...

I don't know what you mean by a "Picture By Picture". Do you mean Frame by Frame - that is one frame AFTER the other? Dunno .. .

Anyways, I would obtain, or create thru something like Particle Illusion, an explosion and preserve the background transparency - the ALPHA channel - and then bring THAT into Vegas

Once here it would be

TRACK1 : Explosion

TRACK2: Corridor/doorway . .whatever.

Problem here is that you NEED yourself infont of the explosion .. well, I think, you gotta have a sandwich of tracks

TRACK1 : YOU!

TRACK2 : Explosion

TRACK3: Residual BackGround

TOUGH!! This is real tough.

Now you are really going to appreciate the craft that goes into GREEN or BLUE screen masking and Chroma Keying. If you COULD get a a short sequence of you running AWAY from a well lit blue or green screen and CK out the BG you could very well place this on TRACK1. However, if you have the patience you CAN pull off quite a bit by using MASKING. It wont be the perfection you can achieve with well done CK-ing.

This is the easy bit. Insert a velocity envelope and adjust where you want.

Grazie

thanks!

May i ask, what is masking, what does it do, and how do i do it?

Thankyou!

I'm sorry - I SHOULD have said BEZIER Masking.

This allows us to draw DIRECTLY onto the image a "mask" that will punch out a hole or whatever shape, and allow the UNDERNEATH track to appear through it. EXCELLENT!!

To explain it here would be both foolish and tedious. What I would STRONGLY advise you to do is to use the Vegas ONLINE Help. And here, the ONLINE help, is extremely excellent. Oh, it comes with HEAPS of pictorial examples PLUS and animation about using BEZIER points and drawing. So . .. .

GO > Help > Contents and Index > and type in "Bezier"

Also, while you are researching through the Online Help files, and if you haven't done this already, get acquainted with Masking as an option. There is a whole World available to you.

Hope this helps,

Grazie

thanks, i'll check it out now!

You will LOVE it!!!