Eye Blinking

nirvanray wrote on 7/13/2013, 8:26 AM

Hello friends,
I want to have an effect of one eye blinking where I want to show the scenes through the eye of the protagonist.
For that I want to show the effect like eyes blinking (closing and opening) and showing the scenes. But the scene takes places through curved surfaces like an eye.
For reference I have attached a picture of the eyes from the where the scene must be shown but the eyes must not be static but they should move up and down like blinks.
Kindly help.
Regards.

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yvon-robert wrote on 7/13/2013, 9:59 AM

Hi,

To create the effet you must create a movie with the outside green (replace the balck with green RGB 0,255,0. You have 2 track

Track 1 is you movie clip eye close and open (blink) you can shot it or use from your present movie,(zoom on face)

Track 2 is the mask that you create green .

Export both track as a movie,

Now create a new movie:

Track 1 is your movie scene

Track 2 is your movie exported with green mask, activate the green chromakey on this track and rescale as you want you can add all effet you need on this.

Regards,

johnebaker wrote on 7/13/2013, 3:15 PM

Hi Anirban

Is this clip what you are looking for?

A high res image of the timeline is here.

The Video, Distortion, Lens effect has been applied to the videos and keyframe animation applied to the 'eye' mask as seen in the image

Also note the black background image on track 1 - this is to counter the mask movements showing the video around the edges as the 'eye' closes and opens.

John

nirvanray wrote on 7/14/2013, 4:47 AM

@ John,
Thanks so much for the help. Can you kindly send me an eye mask? I will be thankful.
Secondly how do I place the key-frames?
I know am causing you a concern but will be happy of you help me out.
Regards.

@ YR,
Thanks for your kind help. Is it possible to show the explanation through a screenshot please?
Regards.

johnebaker wrote on 7/14/2013, 5:32 AM

Hi Anirban

The 'eye' mask I used is a white oval on a black background which you can create in any image editing program.

My copy is here and the Video effect to make it blink is here.

If you are using WIndows 7 or Vista save the video effect file in this folder C:\ProgramData\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro xxxxxx \UserVideoEffects where xxxxxx = the version you have. (Not sure what the path would be if you have Windows XP)

You can then apply this by right clicking the clip on the timeline and selecting Video Effects, Load effects and selecting the Blinking Eye effect.

Note if you change the size of the 'eye' then you will have to change the settings for size and position.

Have fun with this

John

nirvanray wrote on 7/14/2013, 5:39 AM

Dear John,

I really appretiate your kind help. I will surely try this at home because now I am at work. LOL.

Thanks again and if I have doubts I will come back.

Regards.