...created for my wife for an internet singing competition. If you like Rascal Flatts, you'll love this! It was a great project that was created entirely within Veagas Pro 8. Make sure you have the 'HD' button activated -- looks WAY better than the standard def version.
If you like her perfomance, go give her a vote as well! :-)
BTW -- the compression quality is horrible on the competition site, that's why I put it up on Vimeo for others to see (who have a more critical eye :-). Check out the vimeo link first!
Re: Music Video Created in Vegas 8! by Rob James on Apr 3, 2008 at 7:52:46 pm
Nice job Jimmy, turned out real good! How did you do that light flash effect? I like it, but it may have been used a few too many times. Anyways, your second link doesn't work, but I got there from the Vimeo link. I think this is what the link should be. http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/VideosSeries/VideoView.aspx?vid=5002_8572568... I gave her entry my vote, hope it helps. Later...........
Re: Music Video Created in Vegas 8! by Jimmy Allen on Apr 5, 2008 at 4:11:08 am
Rob, Adam, Allen --
Thanks for the positive feedback. Thank you Rob for posting the correct link -- not sure what happened.
As for the flash effects -- there are a few different things happening. One was the use of Vegas glow effect set to wipe to full white on the end of one clip and on the next clip wipe from full white back the other direction. A bit of key framing and fiddling with the parameters is involved here.
The other is actually a short bit of footage of the sun with lens flare. (overlaid over the edit point)
And the other type is Digital Juice 'Swipes' (liquid light) effect. I Basically sped up the clip, adjusted the opacity (to make it transparent) and enlarged it to fill the frame to taste. I also changed the blending mode on the track (all flash effects) to either 'burn' or 'add.' Throughout the video I used a combination of the above methods -- sometimes two together.
The swipes look great I think -- very organic, which is what I really wanted. In the beginning of the video I was trying to create the look via Vegas plugs and wasn't quite nailing it. There are only two of these in the beginning, but left them in due to time...
