Avalon in Premiere

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 3:09 pm

I think what he is trying to do is what is called with photgraphs as a softfocus effect. I saw this done to pictures of ugly ppls senior photos who want to seem better looking as it softens up all those harsh line....Just a verry slight blur should do it, though i don't have premire around me to try it.

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 3:10 pm

oh yeah....i forgot....if you jsut want to limit it to the person and leave the rest alone, just just a image mask like what was explained with the gradient to limit the effect to just the person you want to be slightly out of focus.

Wyverex · Post by **Wyverex** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 7:08 am

K thanks all I managed to do something which looks like what I wanted.

I layered one clip on the other, add radial blur (zoom - 30%) to each and add 10% gaussian blur and 100/20 brightness/contrast to the top vid. Then I set a luminance transparency (100 - 50) and there it is.

Premiere takes 3 sec to render a single frame. ^_^

Anyway I think the bitmap sequence tip would be perfect but i didn't see a "import/bitmap sequence" command in Premiere so my clip will be cut in hundreds of 1 frame BMP file... Can I tell Premiere to join all the pics together?

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 7:10 am

Also, you might want to try out a filter called "echo" under the time section.

It can do a similar effect to what you are after - althought the gaussian works too (despite being *damn* slow).

Wyverex · Post by **Wyverex** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 4:53 pm

Echo is like ghosting (except that it doesn't detect edges, just layer more clips) and even with the echo time set to 0 it's just a brightness/contrast setting...

Is there any way to join pics together?

merrow · Post by **merrow** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 8:30 pm

If the images are named something like image001.jpg, image002.jpg, image003.jpg or something like that with the numbers on the end when you import them into premiere check the "Import Numbered Stills" option to bring them in and they will behave like a video clip on your timeline.

Also, Photoshop plugins don't work in Premiere but some do in the program AVIedit. It's got a free demo, maybe you should see if the method you used in Photoshop would work there. (AVIedit only costs around $30 anyway if you decide you like it.)

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 1:39 am

Actually Photoshop plugins do work - it just depends on your version of photoshop.

I have photoshop 5 and premiere 6 and almost every photoshop 5 filter works in premiere.

I'm guessing this isnt true with photoshop 6 ones.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 2:34 am

Premiere and photoshop seem to have gone on to their own separate SDKs

. If you have Photoshop 5, most likely those filters are Filter Factory filters, which Premiere seems to support, but Photoshop 6 seems to use the internal SDK....

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 2:48 am

Ok, so I searched the web and found this <a href="http://www.pizzahut.co.kr"> PAGE!</a>....

Okay nevermind that(cute asian tho)... this is the <a href="http://iquebec.ifrance.com/pspabcsuite/ ... m">page</a> I am speaking of. Which has a link for this <a href="http://iquebec.ifrance.com/pspabcsuite/ ... p">Diffuse Glow</a> filter. Which works fine if you slap it in your Premiere plugins folder.... look under "Distort" in the effects window.

~klinky

Wyverex · Post by **Wyverex** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 6:44 am

WOW!! Just perfect! Thank you very very much!

Anyway I still can use batch processing on bitmap sequence tip if I don't find the Premiere pluging.