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_Trek_Sound_Effects.aspx



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[Luckan2man]

Do you know how to do this Voyager style; like here: watch 7PAdD5iQk4 ? And do you know how to do forcefields?

[TinFoilChefDotCom]

@Luckan2man I haven't tried doing a voyager style effect yet. I'm going to have to see what I can come up with. As for force fields, ship shielding effects & such, no, I don't ... yet. I'll be learning it though because I'm going to need those effects and more in future videos.

[BlueFeatherWolf]

how do you separate the clip?

[TinFoilChefDotCom]

@BlueFeatherWolf Easy. You position the timeline cursor where you want to split it and hit S on the keyboard.

[SuperKittenful]

omg looks hard your so smart!

[TinFoilChefDotCom]

It's not hard at all. Once you're familiar with the editor effects like this are actually very easy to pull off.

[VampireNewl]

The original transporter effect for TOS used glitter in a bowl of water

[Honestinwilkesbarre]

@arridian

If you're also using one of the Vegas Pro's, you can generate similar footage right within Vegas. Just animate one of the noise effects from the media generator. Gravel would be a good starting point, just fiddle with the settings a bit. Alternately, you could generate a solid color from the media generator (say, yellow), then from Video FX drop on some heavy noise and animate that. Again, experiment to get an effect you like.

[arridian]

could you possibly do a clip on how you make the particle footage with wax? I have the program, but for the life of me can't figure it out. Thanks.

[hbwhiteboy]

i just wanted to say thanks for the awesome tutorial...i learned alot and plan on using it in the future...i also pasted a copy of my video resume to kinda show my entrance kinda transporter style