Blue Light Effect in Music Videos How Do I Do it with Vegas?

Marcus Wright · May 23rd, 2011, 03:05 PM

Also i cant move the fx it only seems to work on the whole clip??

Robin Davies-Rollinson · May 23rd, 2011, 03:06 PM

Use the Sparkle one.
The effect works best if you have a bright light(s) in the frame.
You'll have to liaise with the club to see how they are going to light the acts, but thety usually have some sort of backlight I would have thought.

Marcus Wright · May 23rd, 2011, 03:10 PM

The club has no lights there, Im bringing my own, but what am asking is to get a similiar effect to what you did in your photo how do0 I do this, just put a light behind the rapper im videoing? As I also want to get a blue line straight at the bottom too like in real music videos if you know what I mean.

Robin Davies-Rollinson · May 23rd, 2011, 03:14 PM

You'll have to place a lamp somewhere in the background.
Glint will kick off any bright light source in the frame, so if you need one at the bottom, you'll have to place another light source there as well.
With this plugin , you can't choose where the flare will be unfortunately, but at least we've saved you some cash!

Marcus Wright · May 23rd, 2011, 03:16 PM

Thanks mate !!

Bryan Daugherty · May 31st, 2011, 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robin Davies-Rollinson

You'll have to place a lamp somewhere in the background.
Glint will kick off any bright light source in the frame...

You can cheat this if you need to. A bright light source is a blown out area on video or an area with a lot of white. You can cheat this by CAREFULLY creating white spots in Photoshop on a transparent background and dropping them over your footage then applying the glint to the photo shop track. I worked on a play a couple of years ago that used glitter in a Peter Pan style effect of throwing it into the air as "pixie dust" it played out ok on the stage but on video it had no pop and was barely visible at all. Using the approach above and the glint filter I made the pixie dust out of thin air and in the video it worked really well.

Best practice is light it from behind. If you are already in post you can create psuedo- lights using a transparent background psd or png file...

Bryan Daugherty · May 31st, 2011, 06:58 PM

Here is a video clip of just the effect hosted on Vimeo.

May 23rd, 2011, 03:05 PM	#16
Marcus Wright Regular Crew Join Date: May 2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 56	Re: Blue Light Effect in Music Videos How Do I Do it with Vegas? Also i cant move the fx it only seems to work on the whole clip??

May 23rd, 2011, 03:06 PM	#17
Robin Davies-Rollinson Trustee Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Gwaelod-y-garth, Cardiff, CYMRU/WALES Posts: 1,215	Re: Blue Light Effect in Music Videos How Do I Do it with Vegas? Use the Sparkle one. The effect works best if you have a bright light(s) in the frame. You'll have to liaise with the club to see how they are going to light the acts, but thety usually have some sort of backlight I would have thought. __________________ TV Director / Cameraman

May 23rd, 2011, 03:10 PM	#18
Marcus Wright Regular Crew Join Date: May 2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 56	Re: Blue Light Effect in Music Videos How Do I Do it with Vegas? The club has no lights there, Im bringing my own, but what am asking is to get a similiar effect to what you did in your photo how do0 I do this, just put a light behind the rapper im videoing? As I also want to get a blue line straight at the bottom too like in real music videos if you know what I mean.

May 23rd, 2011, 03:14 PM	#19
Robin Davies-Rollinson Trustee Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Gwaelod-y-garth, Cardiff, CYMRU/WALES Posts: 1,215	Re: Blue Light Effect in Music Videos How Do I Do it with Vegas? You'll have to place a lamp somewhere in the background. Glint will kick off any bright light source in the frame, so if you need one at the bottom, you'll have to place another light source there as well. With this plugin , you can't choose where the flare will be unfortunately, but at least we've saved you some cash! __________________ TV Director / Cameraman

May 23rd, 2011, 03:16 PM	#20
Marcus Wright Regular Crew Join Date: May 2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 56	Re: Blue Light Effect in Music Videos How Do I Do it with Vegas? Thanks mate !!

May 31st, 2011, 06:58 PM	#22
Bryan Daugherty Major Player Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Lexington, Ky - USA Posts: 552	Re: Blue Light Effect in Music Videos How Do I Do it with Vegas? Here is a video clip of just the effect hosted on Vimeo. Animated Pixie Dust on Vimeo __________________ 3x-HD1000u - Ikan 8000HD- custom i7 PC - Vegas Pro 13 and 11 64 bit - Premiere Pro CS4 - and a whole mess of other equipment...