still camera crosshairs matte

[mastermind]

I need to know how to create a still camera crosshairs matte to put over my footage to replicate surveillance cameras taking pictures of my subject. How would i easily do this? Heres what I'm working with:
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Photoshop

I'm not too good with AE and photoshop so if you guys could give very basic explanations that would be great.

Also i want to add a vignette matte to some footage, how would i go about this.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Huy Vu]

You can make a very simple cross hair using the titler in Premiere. Draw two criss-crossing lines down the middle and then draw two circles, one large and one small at the center, then decrease their opacity.

 

[mastermind]

oh...nice.....didnt realize there was a draw tool in the titler. guess i got my answer. thanks man.

Anyone have any idea about the vignette matte?

 

[Rick Meyer]

do you have magic bullet? I believe there is a vignette effect right there in the effects tab underneath the Looks Suite.

 

[mastermind]

yes i do....i'll check that out when i get home...thanks alot guys

 

[mastermind]

i'll be posting up the video in about a week in the DVX-100 footage section so you guys can check it out.

 

[Rick Meyer]

cool. I was looking around and found this: http://www.profoundeffects.com/products/camerapov/

A bit pricey for effects that can be built right in after effects but if this plug-in was more like $50 bucks I'd probably buy it. Some cool looks.

 

[mastermind]

funny i actually found that yesterday too but really dont think its worth the price. I did what you guys suggested yesterday and that worked just fine.

 

[Shooter]

Colorista is another nice way to make a vignette and very customiseable.

 

[Bayne]

I did this for an early project of mine...made the bracket box around the screen and the cross hairs with a record •. Made everything in Photoshop on a black BG and dumped it into PP2 and it keyed out the black leaving the white behind.

 

[mastermind]

thanks to everyone that helped. I used your advise and it worked well. Here's the final product: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?p=959936#post959936

 

[Bayne]

thanks to everyone that helped. I used your advise and it worked well. Here's the final product: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?p=959936#post959936

Looked good man. Nice work.

 

[Rick Meyer]

Hey man that video looked really good. I dug that a lot.

 

[Shooter]

I did this for an early project of mine...made the bracket box around the screen and the cross hairs with a record •. Made everything in Photoshop on a black BG and dumped it into PP2 and it keyed out the black leaving the white behind.

Why did you not make it on a transparent BG in Photoshop to save the keying process. ? (Just curious)

 

[mastermind]

thanks for the comments....was a fun shoot and frustrating edit

 

[Bayne]

It automatically keyes out the black, i think, been a while since i did it. I think i read it somewhere and wanted to just try it.