'Flash' effect?

[smokes]

In some of the SA stunting movies I've seen there is a kind of white flash effect which comes up sometimes (often in time with the beat of the music). Is there a tutorial on that in this section and if not could someone point me towards one or make one?

I'm using Sony Vegas btw.

[Aries]

It's quit easy, just make the two video clips overlap, right click the overlapping part and select 'More effects' then find flash   Some one else will come along and show you an easier and better way I'm sure but thats how I do it

[Torque]

Or put two clips together and go to Transition FX or something and pick flash.

[smokes]

Hmm maybe I wasn't clear I mean these effects are happening in the middle of a certain clip, not as a transition but during the clip itself. Does this mean I have to split the clip into subclips or is there a different way to do it? Some examples of what I mean are in the 'SA, my way' movie btw.

[Laketown]

I think those flashes are done by using the glow effect.

[Ferσή]

You must split the clip. Use the S button.

[Link]

No just use keyframes.

[M2B]

I can make a tutorial on multiple ways to do what you are doing.
I'm a little busy at the time, but it shouldn't be long.

[THEFTman]

> Tutorial <

On the 2nd page in tuts section are other 3 Glow tuts, which are actually not simple way of creating Flashes.
The most simple way is to split the clip in the place where you want flash to be, by pressing S on the keyboard, and putting transtion FX called Flash...

P.S. Refuse from posting Question on the video editing in Tuts section plz.

[VaNilla]

Just split and use transition Hard Flash, as for the keyframes way *this way you can do alot of flashes at once easier* you'll have to ask someone else as i dont know

[M2B]

You've found a good tutorial theftman but I'm not sure if that's what they wanted exactly.

For this tutorial you will need:

 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢Paint
 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢Vegas
 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢Knowledge of transparencies and Tracks in vegas

You will be using 3 tracks in this tutorial. The botom-most will be the music. The second will be the stuntvideo and the top track will be used to make the overlaying flash. This solid white canvas can be made by saving a solid white picture made in Paint as a BMP and importing it to vegas.

First off set up your interface to resemble the one below.

[img]http://upload.kinstry.co.uk/users/M2B/3tracks.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IPB Image\" /]

Notice the order of the tracks. It is essential for making this effect.

If you are trying to get the flash effect perfectly onbeat with the music, follow these steps:


+Find the exact spot of the song on the track. If the spot is one with a very stressed beat, the EQ display on the track will have a sudden growth in size. Click near this area on the track to get your cursor [at least] near the desired beat of the song.

+Press the SPACE button to play in the preview window. Listen to where the song starts as soon as you press play. If you hear the beat, and only the beat, that you wanted to place the effect, you are in the right spot. If it is a little off, you can use the ARROW KEYS (left and right) on your keyboard to adjust the location of the cursor a little at a time untill you find the exact spot. You can now click and drag your media to snap it to the cursor.

Now, if you were to play through a preview of what you have so far, you'd see a solid white cavas where you want your flash to be. The next step is to think of how long you want the flash to last. To change this, move your cursor to the far right of the track, near the edge. Your cursor should change into a small sqare and an arrow. Click and drag from left to right and this will adjust the length of the flash.

You are almost done! Last thing you need to do is have the white fade out. To do this, move your cursor to the right edge just like in the previous step. When the cursor changes to the small square with an arrow, don't click but move the cursor up to the corner of the track. The cursor will turn into a 1/4 circle with a left and right arrow (<->). You may now click and hold, and move your cursor to the left. As you move to the left, you will notice a sort of "secondary cursor" moving over the track. Move it alllll the way to the left and left go of the click. Your white-flash (top) track should now look like either one of these two examples:

[img]http://upload.kinstry.co.uk/users/M2B/flashexample.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IPB Image\" /]

Now preview the track and witness the results.


If this is NOT what you were looking for then I appologize, but this tutorial could become of use for someone else...

[brandon6199]

^^ Thats such a harder way lol. All you do is split a clip where u want the flash to start, then split where u want it to end, then take that piece of clip, do Media FX, click glow, mess with the settings and keyframes and there you go. Its real easy, if u still need more help, pm me or something

[STRIKER]

yeah brandons way ftw (i dotn even no what that measn ive wanted to say it...)

[Cody]

^^ Thats such a harder way lol. All you do is split a clip where u want the flash to start, then split where u want it to end, then take that piece of clip, do Media FX, click glow, mess with the settings and keyframes and there you go. Its real easy, if u still need more help, pm me or something

thats a easyer but harder way to do it..  

Just split the clip, go to transition fx(or whatever its called)>flash and pick soft/hard flash. And put it on your clip..

[brandon6199]

yeah brandons way ftw (i dotn even no what that measn ive wanted to say it...)

lol ftw means For The Win