Hello, can anyone please help me do a special effect like the star-trek transporter room. I want to make my dog appear as though he's been teleported from one scene to another.
Karen

All I can think of is to shoot the scene on a tripod, but make sure you have just as much footage (in length) of the setting of the scene, but without the dog in it. Then, at the moment when you want to do the transporter effect, do a really slow fade from the footage of the dog to the footage of the same frame without the dog. Add the transporter sound to it. All this is missing is the blue swirly energy stuff...I'm not sure how to add that to the scene, but hopefully what I've told you makes some kind of sense.

yep, you NEED a tripod for this.

shoot the dog. Not like that. Shoot the dog doing whatever you want it to, then fix the tripod on it. don't move the tripod. get the dog to stay there for as long as you want the transporting wibbly wobbly bit to last. then throw something at the dog. get it to run away. get a second of that shot.

Then, like above, you just have to add some wibbly wobbly effects over the dog, and do a fade or something to the new scene. the bits of the dog will be replaced by what's behind it. I dunno what the effect is called. might just work with a fade.

i realise this post is similar to what's said above, but there's more animal cruelty in mine.

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I'd just like to add that no animals were harmed in mrlipring's post.

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I got really bored and decided to give it a try on my own....Muahahahaha. Check out the user videos section to see it.

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AMD Athlon 1700 (@2200mhz from 1466 sod the noise!) - 768mb pc3200 - 200GB Maxtor - Pioneer 106 - GF4 Ti4200 - twinhan/visionplus pci dvb-t - random pci analogue tv tuner - A7v600-x (to replace the a7n8x-d that died...) - random 17\" CRT
Sony STR-DE425 & Eltax c205s;
xBox w/20GB HDD- executer 2.3b;
xBox - standard;
Konica/Minolta dimage z10 w/2x512mb SD;
iRiver h340;
A silly amount of Cat-5 and usb cables

Thanks guys this has been really helpful. I'm getting the hang of this now, thanks again, Karen