Sony Vegas - Wavy border effect?

Post Reply
User avatar
xPiikanyaa
Phail Whale
Joined: Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:43 pm
Status: :<
Location: England
Contact:
Org Profile

Sony Vegas - Wavy border effect?

Post by xPiikanyaa » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:47 am

How do you do the effect in this video at about 0:59, that looks like a cookie-cutter type effect except the edges are sort of wavy? I know the editor used Vegas Pro 8.0 and Photoshop, but I can't figure out how to do that effect... is it some sort of plugin? :<

User avatar
Niotex
The Phantom Canine
Joined: Sun Jun 08, 2003 1:54 pm
Status: Simply Insane
Location: Netherlands
Org Profile

Re: Sony Vegas - Wavy border effect?

Post by Niotex » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:16 pm

Masking or as vegas likes to call it "Pan and crop".

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/v ... uide+vegas

You're better off making the boarder in photoshop/gimp etc using the pen tool though.
Image

User avatar
Kanti13
Joined: Sat May 31, 2008 12:52 am
Location: コンピューター のほえに
Contact:
Org Profile

Re: Sony Vegas - Wavy border effect?

Post by Kanti13 » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:23 am

There are many ways to do something like that.
It looks like they made the border in photoshop, either with the pen or paint brushes. They may have just downloaded border brushes with that shape. You can find a lot on http://www.deviantart.com. Just be sure to check the artists policy on crediting. You would have to save it with high contrast color background that can be cleanly chroma keyed out in Vegas.

The color adjustments could be made in vegas, and it looks like they just used Cookie Cutter (probably a rectangle) and put it on the layer under the border, so it looks like the border of the frame.

Even if you don't have photoshop, you can find free border images online if you look around enough. For example, (I'm not familiar with the website) but I found this through a quick google search.
Or, a shape like that wouldn't be too hard to mask from a solid color generated media in vegas. Just use feather for a smoother look.

And just for extra confusion :sweat: If you want to do it the way I've said and you have trouble syncing the 2 layers to move at the same time (this is what I do, I don't know about other people), use 'track motion' for both layers so you can keyframe the positions for one and just copy and paste the keyframes for the other. You can also get that feather around the frames in the video by using the glow in track motion.
So... :roll: ... long post, but I hope it might be helpful in some way.

User avatar
xPiikanyaa
Phail Whale
Joined: Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:43 pm
Status: :<
Location: England
Contact:
Org Profile

Re: Sony Vegas - Wavy border effect?

Post by xPiikanyaa » Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:56 am

Thanks for your help! ^^

Pegtart
Joined: Thu May 20, 2010 3:23 pm
Org Profile

Re: Sony Vegas - Wavy border effect?

Post by Pegtart » Thu May 20, 2010 3:30 pm

I believe that is just a Overlay Picture ^_^

Post Reply

Return to “Effects & Techniques”