The Idiots Guide to Vegas

AimoAio · Post by **AimoAio** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:23 am

Hmm well I was on youtube as usual,looking at others amv and I saw this one which had a nice effect.It's like darkened in black but with a section thats whiter than the rest.In the comments parts,somebody mentioned a spotlight effect and the person had said they used Vegas.What effect is this?And how'd I do it?

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:39 am

that sounds like one of the basic drop in effects it's found under "bump map"

AimoAio · Post by **AimoAio** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:15 pm

it's this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kro5ZtDOJ7I

what's the effect at 0:22?and 0:52?I've never seen it before but it looks really cool!

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:27 pm

*Echoes JaddziaDax*

Yea, it's the spotlight effect. On the Video FX tab, it's under Bump Map.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:01 pm

actually they use that effect to varying degrees through the whole video

uchihaclan13 · Post by **uchihaclan13** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:34 pm

I have a question that's probably already been answered... haven't really looked through all of this thread yet...

I usually render my AVIs uncompressed and export them to Virtual Dub Mod. I'm doing a project at the moment where all of the anime sizes are practically 720x480.
My problem is when I render the AVI out, I get the black bars all around the anime and it basically gets smaller than what it used to be. I'd give you a screencap, but I can't. Screencap right from there, unless I use FFD. Hopefully u understand what I mean...it starts out big, but it renders out smaller than b4. I want to keep it it's normal size.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:17 pm

no anime is supposed to be 702x480 thats just an ntsc standard so it displays properly on your TV, then your dvd player will resize it to the proper size.

you should use avisynth to crop off the borders and resize the video to the correct aspect ratio.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:17 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:no anime is supposed to be 720x480 thats just an ntsc standard so it displays properly on your TV, then your dvd player will resize it to the proper size.

you should use avisynth to crop off the borders and resize the video to the correct aspect ratio.

fixed

AimoAio · Post by **AimoAio** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:11 am

Thanks!I'll try experimenting it now,yous are really helpful by the way,I don't know what would happen if I didnt find this site lol..

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:16 am

perhaps stalk me on the tube instead? O.o