Sony Vegas Tutorial - How To Create A Star Trek TOS Transporter Effect
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This tutorial shows how to recreate the transporter effect from the original Star Trek series.
The "sparklies" part of this can be created several ways:
You could use particle illusion.
You could use the particle generator in Wax 2.0 (which is what I did in one case)
You could set your camera on a tripod in front of an analog TV, put it on an empty channel (easy these days) and zoom in so that the static fills the camcorder screen and record about 10 - 15 seconds of that (I've done this also).
You can also make an animated .gif with 30 layers, each filled with golden or silvery colored pixels by using a "spray paint" tool and then putting several copies of that on a video track in Sony Vegas and render that into a video clip.
In the original series they also used Alka-Seltzer. They set up a glass tank with a black background and lit it from below. Then they took several Alka-Seltzer tablets and taped quarters to each one (to keep it from floating into view) and dropped them into the tank and filmed that.
Once you have any of these shots it's a simple matter of putting it into your beaming project and setting the composition mode to "Screen" so that it will key out the black and leave the effect.
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Wow, this was very useful, any idea if you could do this with anything like iMovie or Adobe Premiere?
Since I’ve never used either of those programs I can’t give you a straight answer. The best I can say is that this should work in any non-linear editor that allows you to use masking.
It was useful video for me! Thanks for sharing! It’s my hobby ))