Wheee, new vid!

[grav_ity]

Question:

Is there an effect in WMM that causes a still screen to pulse like it's being affected by a sonic boom?

Or possibly...ripple to the beat?

(I am not sure if I am explaining that well, but it makes perfect sense to me...)

Comments

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

Mm, I don't think it has anything like that. There's a "pixelate" one that's probably the closest I can think of, but it's not what you're looking for. I know some people will do a zoom in, then zoom out and depending on how long the clip is, you might be able to sort of put together something like that with the zoom-in-zoom-out thing. That's under effects, though. If you're going between clips, there are many different transitions that might be able to give you something similar. Have you gone through the list of transitions? They have a pixelate there, and a shatter transition...but again, nothing like what you're looking for.

Edit: I can do correct parentheses

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

(Just realized you said "still screen" (look how closely I'm paying attention :p) but it's the same deal--the effects work the same way on a still or a moving clip. Pixelate MIGHT work for you best on a still screen.)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the thing about WMM is that the effects are static on the clip. You can't amend them or time them to the music. Varying the level of the effect as you continue through the clip is done using "keyframing" (i.e. where you assign key frames with different values for the effect, i.e. frame 03 is 0% blur while fram 46 is 100% blur, then frame 77 is back to 0% blur so the blur arrives and disappears again).

The only way to do anything like this in WMM is incredibly fiddly. You basically need to render the clip with the static effect, and then render the exact same clip without the effect. Then on the timeline, you can fade between the clips on the "same" frames (i.e. start fading out of the non-effected clip and into the effected clip on frame 46 of each), the "fade" itself is invisible and you'll just see the effect slowly coming into force and then fading out again. I used that to fade in and out between colour and grayscale once, but it took a really long time.

The only other thing I can suggest is similar to what laura_josephsen said, which is check out the transitions. Again, if you transition between the "same" parts of the clips, the transition will look more like an effect?

You just need to be careful to make sure that if you have a half second long transition between Clip A and Clip B, you also need Clip B to start exactly half a second before the end of Clip A, so the transition is between identical frames the whole time and thus looks invisible (except for the transition effect).

*If* WMM has a blurry transition, this may work? But off the top of my head, I'm sorry I can't remember if there is a transition like that. You may, however, be able to find a custom one on the internet? There are a lot of custom WMM effects out there and they're pretty easy to install (though make sure you get the ones that are for XP or Vista depending on your OS - they're not compatible with each other).

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Go look at my TSCC vid Mary and tell me if that is the effect you're looking for starting at about 0:15. It's a WMM add-on someone made and I should be able to find the download link again for you, if it is.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Not Quite, no. But thanks.