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[Deia]

i'm making a vid and i really need to know how to do this effect.
AngelNana(AngelNanoo)already explain me,but words aren't enough for me,Im slow I need screencaps...
So..i want ask if, someone who knows to make this effect Can make me a small tutorial? .or if knows any site where i can find a tutorial of this effect?
thank you
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[Aislynn]

Hey, Deia! For ghost effect, are you meaning how to make somebody look glowy but not their surroundings? Or how to make them look slightly transparent? Or how to make them seem to disappear and leave the background behind? (Wow, there were more ghost effect possibilities than I realized, lol! )

[Deia]

hey !

its something like this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2MEY5FJrA6o


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[tjmack1986]

I've been wondering the same thing...Only the thing I've been trying to figure out is how to make the person disappear but the background is still there...
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[Aislynn]

Ah-hah, I see what you mean! I can show you some of that but unfortunately there's some of it that my program (Vegas Movie Studio 6.0) can't do. But I can direct you to a tutorial for those parts!

Now, this may not have been exactly how Akirehtur did hers but this is how I would try to do something like this myself.

First off, get your clips with the character you want to "ghost." In this case, I'll be making Kate hopefully look ghostly in this scene with Sawyer. This process will work the same whether you want to take a character from a different scene or use a character that was already in the same scene. For this case, I chose the scene in "Confidence Man" where Kate was reading Sawyer's letter by the beach.



Since I wanted to ghost Kate in the scene she was already in, I made a copy of that clip and put it on the timeline above my original one.



I applied the glow effect onto the top clip. (Glow is under the Video FX tab, I chose "white soft glow" but it really doesn't matter because you have to play around with the glow percent, intensity and suppression sliders until you get a look you sort of like. The levels will be different for every clip you use. )



After that, I applied the Black and White effect to the top clip, again, playing around with the blend amount level until I liked the way it looked with the glow effect.



Lastly, I applied the cookie cutter to the top clip and tried out a few different shapes, sizes, positions and feathering levels until I found the one that let me cut as close to Kate's face as possible without letting any of the "non-ghost Kate" show at the edges.

This worked pretty much for this shot because Kate isn't moving around much. However if you have a scene where you want this effect on someone who's doing a lot of moving around or if one of the preset cookie cutter shapes just won't work well, then you'll have to mask the shot instead of using the cookie cutter.

Masking is only available in the full version of Vegas and Dayln wrote up a tutorial about it here. That will let you cut around an irregular shape (like a person's body ) but if their arms and legs are moving around, then you'll need to animate that mask with keyframes to keep it moving along with the movement of the person and I'm not sure if we have a tutorial for that here. I'll look and see!

Anyway, I hope this was able to help you just a bit towards the effect you're hoping for!

[Aislynn]

[tjmack1986]

Oh okay, thanks Aislynn...I'll have to give it a try
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[Deia]

Aislynn´

thank you soooooo much for your help
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