Couple effect questions

[NomadxJess]

1. Can anyone help me create a 1940's camera Flashbulb effect??

2. What is the best way about creating lifelike true gun muzzle flashes??

Thanks a lot..

Jesse

[Rich Lee]

ill let you in a little secret i have when it comes to guns and muzzle flashes...

http://www.artbeats.com/prod/search.php?pg=1&act=Search&kw=muzzle&ct=&fm=

the little quicktime previews they have of their stock footage work suprising well when you comp them into your shots...they are fast so you never hold on them long enough to get a good look...they work just dandy...try it out..you will have to mess around with luma keys and getting it blend right into your footatage....

[Rich Lee]

or you could spend the 5bills and buy the cd of stock footage for gun stuff...

[NomadxJess]

ill let you in a little secret i have when it comes to guns and muzzle flashes...

http://www.artbeats.com/prod/search.php?pg=1&act=Search&kw=muzzle&ct=&fm=

the little quicktime previews they have of their stock footage work suprising well when you comp them into your shots...they are fast so you never hold on them long enough to get a good look...they work just dandy...try it out..you will have to mess around with luma keys and getting it blend right into your footatage....

Rich, thanks for the help man... Any more hints on how to adjust my luma keys to get rid of that black outline and still keep the muzzle flash??

Thanks..

Jesse

[Rich Lee]

try using a track matte...

bring the muzzle flash into its own comp. duplicate it so that there are 2 of them. the one on top, take and desaturate all the way down. then adjust its levels so that the black go to black and the whites to white. then on the layer below it, change the "TrkMat" to luma matte...or luma matte inverted..see which one does the trick. basicly tou using itself to create an alpha channel. this seems to work better then luma keys actualy, i should have let you know in my earlier post...spaced out. anyway, by tweaking the levels of the layer above it you can see how it will effect the layer below.

it helps to put a different colord bg below the layers so you can see whats being matted out. just make sure you hide the backgound layer when you put this comp into your comp with your shot.

hope that makes sence?!

[matthewd5]

i don't know which one but one of the books i have on learning after effect had a flash bulb in the tutorial, they had the effect so the whole screen flashed for a split second and i think that is a lot more realistic to an old flash like that.

i'll have to go through them and check...it was either one of the trish meyer books or the lynda.com women with her H.ands O.n T.raining

matthew