I have both MSP and Avid liquid, and I enjoy MSP a lot more. But it lacks terribly in effects and tansitions.
Liquid has literaly hundreds of preset transitions as well as equally as many effects... and they came with the program at no extra charge.
Does anybody know of additional transitions and effcts that can be used with MSP... maybe a plugin set or VST's, or something similar???
MSP and effects/transitions
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Terry Stetler
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Don't discount that MSPro's transitions, filters etc. can be customized and saved out using the ADD button in the effect dialog. This way you can save out custom transitions, audio & video filters, keys, moving paths etc. etc. Once custom effects are created you can right-click over their folder in the Production Library and save them out as files for archival purposes.
You can also customize title animations. These are automatically preserved in the animation dialog.
I have a collection of 24 PiP (picture in picture) moving path presets you may find useful;
http://digitalvideo.8m.net/24pip.zip
and presets for landscape and portrait photos;
http://digitalvideo.8m.net/portrait.zip
Installation instructions in the zips.
MSPro 7 and 8 can use most straight audio VST's for Windows. Just create a "c:/..../aft_plug/VST" folder (it's already there in 8.0) and drop the *.dll's in. No games etc. though
Stefan Burger has many custom transitions for MSPro and a program called FXBench that includes dozens of video filters and can be used to create new ones;
http://www.burgers-transition-site.de/index.html
Another good resource are Nick Jushchyshyn's NicEffects & tutorials;
http://www.jushhome.com/nick/tutorials.asp
If you would find a poor mans After Effects useful then DebugModes WAX and Winmorph (a WAX plugin) should be useful;
http://debugmode.com/
Another tool in DebugModes list is Frameserver, which allows you to directly feed MSPro's "create/video file" output to any other program that can load *.avi's by way of a proxy file. This can be an encoder for a format that MSPro doesn't normally support, VirtualDUB (a freeware video processing tool) or whatever. Very handy.
http://www.virtualdub.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualDub
You can also customize title animations. These are automatically preserved in the animation dialog.
I have a collection of 24 PiP (picture in picture) moving path presets you may find useful;
http://digitalvideo.8m.net/24pip.zip
and presets for landscape and portrait photos;
http://digitalvideo.8m.net/portrait.zip
Installation instructions in the zips.
MSPro 7 and 8 can use most straight audio VST's for Windows. Just create a "c:/..../aft_plug/VST" folder (it's already there in 8.0) and drop the *.dll's in. No games etc. though
Stefan Burger has many custom transitions for MSPro and a program called FXBench that includes dozens of video filters and can be used to create new ones;
http://www.burgers-transition-site.de/index.html
Another good resource are Nick Jushchyshyn's NicEffects & tutorials;
http://www.jushhome.com/nick/tutorials.asp
If you would find a poor mans After Effects useful then DebugModes WAX and Winmorph (a WAX plugin) should be useful;
http://debugmode.com/
Another tool in DebugModes list is Frameserver, which allows you to directly feed MSPro's "create/video file" output to any other program that can load *.avi's by way of a proxy file. This can be an encoder for a format that MSPro doesn't normally support, VirtualDUB (a freeware video processing tool) or whatever. Very handy.
http://www.virtualdub.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualDub
Terry Stetler