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Wedding Transitions

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:59 pm
by stelch
Hi

Does anyone know where I can buy Wedding Transitions for VideoStudio?

Stelios

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:08 pm
by sjj1805

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:25 pm
by stelch
Thanks Steve I will try it but I need to purchase urgently as I have to deliver a wedding video I shot this week. I found this: http://www.animationsforvideo.com/html/ ... e_vol3.htm
but I am not sure if its going to work on my VideoStudio x2.

Stelios

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:46 pm
by stelch
Steve
What I didn't understand is this:
From EasyPalette, double-click or drag a selected mask or image to the workspace. Save the file in BMP format.
What is EasyPalette?

Stelios

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:06 pm
by Ron P.
Those look like some real nice wedding animations. If it comes with a program to produce them, or if they are just a collection of video files they should work with VS. Digital Juice.com did have some Wedding themes, however I just checked and found that the wedding "jump-backs" are sold out.

What Steve was referring to is the EasyPalette in PhotoImpact.

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:39 pm
by stelch
vidoman wrote:Those look like some real nice wedding animations. If it comes with a program to produce them, or if they are just a collection of video files they should work with VS. Digital Juice.com did have some Wedding themes, however I just checked and found that the wedding "jump-backs" are sold out.

What Steve was referring to is the EasyPalette in PhotoImpact.
Ron
What the specs says for those trabsistions is this:
"Realtime DV compressed AVI and MOV, Targa image sequences with alpha channel, QT PNG with alpha, Chroma-Key green AVIs (NTSC or PAL)"

How will they work on VS? Where do you put these files?

Stelios

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:49 pm
by sjj1805
Those "Transitions" are not transitions as such, they are short videos.
To use them as transitions you would need to join their video to your own with......











a transition! (probably a cross fade)
alternatively you would have to place your own clips butt ended on the VideoStudio time line, their wedding transition clip on an overlay track and then do a bit of chroma keying - bit laborious just to achieve a transition if you ask me.

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:09 pm
by Ron P.
Stelch,

If you notice in my previous post I did not refer to those as transitions, but animations. As Steve pointed out you will need to use one of those clips, between 2 of your clips, creating the transition. Simply put a transition is just a smooth change from one clip to the next.

Probably included in one of those wedding packages are clips that are specifically designed to be used for transitioning. There are various types of transitions, from hard-cuts, to soft-wipes, and bumpers.

If you're up against a deadline, then you will probably need to purchase a package like those. However with a little time, and practice you could actually create your own, just using your camcorder, or a camera, and VS. Then taking it a bit further, maybe a 3D program, or something like PhotoImpact.

I use both one of Ulead's programs, Cool 3D Production Studio, and a third party application, Bluff Titler for 3D Titling effects.

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:42 pm
by stelch
In the Tutorial the Steve pointed out there was this step:

"In VideoStudio, switch to the Effect Step and then select Mask C"

Now in VideoStudio x2 what transition corresponds to "Mask C" ?

Stelios

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:05 am
by dbz2000
Hello Forum!
I purchased several of the video hotcakes dating back to VideoStudio 9 and they are wonderful. :D Some of them are "transitions" and some are short video clips and they come in Standard Screen and Widescreen and "yes" they work with VS 12 or should I say X2 Pro. I love them and if you join the website, you will receive discounts on others. Hope this helps! :o
DBZ

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:18 am
by Black Lab
I use Digital Juice all the time. Jumpbacks do come with transitions, although you don't put them between clips like VS transitions. You put them on an overlay track, overlapping the 2 clips. They already have an alpha channel so no chroma-keying is necessary.

Unfortunately the Wedding Jumpback has been discontinued. It has been replaced by Editor's Themekits. Click HERE and watch the sample video. Themekits 5, 12 & 18 are wedding related.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:39 am
by randazzo
Also have a look at adorage.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:03 pm
by stelch
dbz2000 wrote:Hello Forum!
I purchased several of the video hotcakes dating back to VideoStudio 9 and they are wonderful. :D Some of them are "transitions" and some are short video clips and they come in Standard Screen and Widescreen and "yes" they work with VS 12 or should I say X2 Pro. I love them and if you join the website, you will receive discounts on others. Hope this helps! :o
DBZ
DBZ
and how do you install the transitions? In what directory do you install them. Do they appear then inside VS in the "Effect" stage together with the other transitions?

Stelios

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:08 pm
by randazzo
They must be used in an other video track. When available the alpha channel is used. So they are not native Videostudio transitions.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:03 pm
by stelch
randazzo wrote:They must be used in an other video track. When available the alpha channel is used. So they are not native Videostudio transitions.
Sorry of being so ignorant but what is the "alpha channel"?

Stelios