Sony Vegas Tutorial - How To Create A Star Trek TOS Transporter Effect

http://tinfoilchef.com 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.

I found the sound effects on sound boards several years ago

Find all kinds of sound fx
http://www.findsounds.com/

Star Trek Sound fx Soundboard
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Star_Tre...



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[MrAlienUSA]

can you make the same tutorial but for Final Cut pro X please?

[TinFoilChefDotCom]

If I had Final Cut Pro X I'd be glad to. Sadly I don't

[MrAlienUSA]

Oh well, thank you. :)

[TinFoilChefDotCom]

sounds like an interesting project. I'm familiar with Minecraft, on my selif1 channel I've an LP that's been going just over a year now.

[JerahCallaghan]

Well.. It's a both tricky and handy at the same time. I'm working on a Minecraft machinima (Minecraft is a videogame in which you can do tons of stuff) of Star Trek. I really need to learn techniques to make it look professional. Then the second thing is, there is a plethora of mods out there. One of them is called Camera studio. Which allows you to preset camera angles, and play them whilst recording. That way I can get two identical clips. One with moving shuttle, and one blank :]

[TinFoilChefDotCom]

The way I'd do it is render the blender scene twice. once with the shuttle on a solid background color you can key out later and a second time with the shuttle turned off so that you can capture the stars in space background moving the way they would as the camera pans, then sync the two clips in post and fade out the shuttle layer when it's time to cloak

[TinFoilChefDotCom]

Probably, unless you're using a shuttle that you've made in Blender (or other 3d software) and render it out with a bluescreen or greenscreen background that you can chroma key out. Then all you'd have to do is fade out the shuttle layer. That's how I did a cloaking effect once.

[JerahCallaghan]

Haha, it's quite some work. I used this in minecraft, although I replaced the video still with actual still footage. I had some resolution problems with the video still. Now I'm going to try and cloak a shuttle.. Frame by frame masking, I guess? ;P

[TinFoilChefDotCom]

glad it was useful to you. I need to use effects like this more often myself

[JerahCallaghan]

This helped a bunch! Thank you so much. Even though it's an old video, it still works. Thank you, sir!