Lost Video Island

[Shirley Parker]

I was watching several videos with interesting effects and I wondered how to do it.

This one I want to learn the most and I reckon you use cookies, but I am not sure how to make them move:

The first 18 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFeo6y4Kr1Y&feature=channel_page

This one is also something I want to learn, when you highlights the character and change the background:

The first 6 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC5V7UnyO9Q

Then the last one for now (I promise) is this one (The rate of 28 and 29 seconds): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YglNpXalUqg&feature=channel_page

I really hope someone can help me, but in advance I say thanks
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[littleton_pace]

im not sure about the second one, but the first one can be done with either Cookie Cutter or Masking, Cookie cutter would be easiest but Masking gives you more leeway, its just harder to learn. ANd the last effect would also be Cookie Cutter or Masking.

The last one would be three timelines, with the three clips that you want to put together and drag the Cookie Cutter effect, probably the Rectangle is best, onto each of the clips. Just one at a time would make it easier. Don't use feathering because for that hard of a cut, you dont need it. Then go into Pan/Crop and move the clip around so it's under the Cookie Cutter evenly. You might also have to adjust where the Cookie Cutter is so it's over the right part of the clip. Then do this same thing to each of the other clips, moving them along a little each time so you have one on the left, one in the middle and one on the right.

For the first effect, to move the cookie cutters, you have to mark the little timeline that comes up when you put the effect on the clip. You'll need two clips, the one for the bottom and the one you want to move with the cookie cutter. For example, Drag a cookie cutter effect onto the TOP clip and you get the effects box, at the bottom of this box is the timeline. Click at the END of the timeline and then adjust the cookie cutter as far along as you want. Then if you play the clip, the cookie cutter will slide along. Basically the same as zooming a clip with Pan/Crop, just on a smaller timeline.

Hope that helps!!
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[Aislynn]

I think that the second on goes into a still picture effect. You screencap your video clip at the moment when you want the effect to start (instructions on how to do that are here ), then use Photoshop or Paintshop or whatever graphics program you have to make the background transparent (save it as a .png to retain the transparency; in Paintshop you have to run the optimizer to keep the transparency, I'm not sure about any other program ).

Once you have your still pic with transparent background, you put it on a timeline right above your video clip but lined up so that it appears to go seamlessly from the moving video to the still pic. You can then use the pan/crop on your still pic to start zooming in on it if you wish (like in that vid example). To get that striped background, you could use a texture or something you've made up in your graphics program and put it underneath your screencap. It would then show through the transparency as if it was now the background for your character. You could move it with the pan/crop to get that motion look of the stripes (you would need to zoom in on your pattern/texture so that you would have room for the pan/crop to go across it without actually just moving it out of the frame ).

That's how I'd do it, anyway! Hope that makes sense!

[Shirley Parker]

Thank you very much for the answers. I will check to see if I get right
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