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Final Cut: Creating Lightsaber Images

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Uploaded by on Sep 23, 2008

How to make your own lightsaber images with glows inside Final Cut without Livetype.

At 1:06, you may use either the first or second gaussian blur. I have a tutorial for the 1st one if you do not understand the interface, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1qV4A8lBE

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  • it worked for a second, but then stopped again. this program is friggin pissing me off!

    somebody please explain to me how you change the sizes and colors of each color solid copy without changing all four simultaneously....

  • you can change each one individually as long as multiple clips are not selected

  • sound is awful you need to speak up

  • sound is fine on my end try turning ur volume up

  • So how do you transfer this lightsaber to another video?

  • you can take a picture of it with Shift Command 4

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  • Thanks alot! I can finally make lightsaber videos. I'm giving you a shoutout. :)

  • Great tutor, man! For more realistic look of the saber I suggest to change the color of the sharpest clip (the one on the 4th track) into brighter, up to white. Also the vertical scale of the sharpest image should be slightly less than the others. That way you dont have to crop the image and the saber looks like it's real.

  • @computerf100 Read the manual it will probably help. :)

  • or you could just google "lightsaber black background" and screen it out then keyframe it

  • your intro sucks no offense but great tutorial really helped me!! THUMBS UP FROM ME!!!!

  • your intro sucks no offence

  • Sooo, my tv production teacher gave us 2 days to film and is giving us 2 days to edit...(45 minute class) aaand im gunna do this and make a lightsaber video and shes gunna freak out since the time before this one it did a photo compilation with music in the backgroundXD

  • how come my final cut express 4.0 has no color solid, only color?

  • so here's the basics with the rest being detail for use.

    4 sticks

    mask shape - high vertical, low horizontal

    causation blur - (top stick) low blur, (bottom 3 sticks) high blur (gradual drop)

    those are the basics with the levels of shape and blur being flexible.

  • Thank you! I've made one and it works perfectly! A sub from me!

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