Welcome back!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 [...]
Powered by Max Banner Ads This video shows how to create a reflection effect in Sony Vegas that looks like the text (or an image) has a reflection in a polished or liquid surface.
I’m still working on how to make the surface with the reflection on it look like it’s an actual liquid with some kind [...]
Powered by Max Banner Ads After over a year of playing around with video editing and special effects, I’ve decided that it’s time to *DO* something constructive with it.
If you’ve a picture that you’d like to take a person or object from the foreground of that picture and place on a different background, or want a [...]
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Back in Nov, 2006 I added Statcounter tracking to this blog because I had discovered that it gave much better stats than the sitemeter I had been using.
Sometime this morning, Statcounter will record the 100,000th page load since I installed the statcounter [...]
As many anxious Trek fans are aware, the new Star Trek movie is due out this year. I just saw the new official trailer on YouTube.
Since I recently finished the video project I was working on, I’m now trying to figure out what to do next.
These days just about anyone can be the producer / director of their own movie. Not only that, but more and more people do exactly that. Someone gets a new camcorder, some video editing software and an idea. Next thing you know they’re producing their own video masterpiece.
There’s actually a small but growing group of people, amateur scientists, that are working on building fusion reactors. Quite a few of them have actually built working fusion reactors in their basements and attic labs.
I’ve been watching rockets being launched from Kennedy Space Center since the early days of project Apollo. I watched every bit of the Apollo 13 coverage that I could (after school anyway). I watched Apollo-Soyuz test mission and the skylab launch and the live coverage of it’s subsequent trouble laden deployment.
A new record has just been established by HP and while this particular record has only been around long enough to soil it’s crib bedding a bit, I’m already wondering if perhaps it’s going to be broken soon.
