How to use masking, scaling, effects and transitions for VHS quality

johny_lovin_it wrote on 3/6/2021, 3:57 PM

I hired a freelancer to make me an intro and I'd like to learn on my own how to do these kinds of effects because I'll be doing different intros with different games I'll be playing. I'd just like someone to show me how to do these effects like this video. I have the static, the sounds and the clips. But I struggle understanding the tools and how to use them. I want to learn how to do those transitions with what happened to the gamecube, the sonic figure, the pacman light, the monitor and me holding the game box in my hand with the static and transitioning to other stuff like the book case shelf. Can someone show me through a video so I can understand? Also, how do you capture a still image of the video?

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CubeAce wrote on 3/6/2021, 6:06 PM

@johny_lovin_it

Hi Johnny.

As someone else said to one of your earlier requests for help, 'Little steps'.

Most of what I see in that video is fairly basic editing for Movie Edit Pro and can be done with the internal effects already offered within MEP but there are at least five different effects in use within that video. There are plenty of tutorials from John EB and others here within the tutorials section above. You need to learn the program bit by bit to find out what can be done and the understanding of the use of the Key Frame Editor and its role when applying multiple effects. It doesn't take a lot of effort to look at what is happening in each section of that video and to break it down but it takes time and effort. Take the pack-man face. What does it do? basically it enlarges. So what effect can do that for you? How is the word Fiver repeated and continues to move slightly? How is it showing over the top like that? Does track order have an impact on what can be done?

All of those things are covered as individual topics in the Tutorials section. All you have to do is decide which bit to learn first. I would start by looking through John EB's Tutorials on basic editing.

Editing is and should be a continuous learning and experimental experience that never really ends. The more you learn the easier it will get.

Ray.

AAProds wrote on 3/7/2021, 1:38 AM

@johny_lovin_it

Also, how do you capture a still image of the video?

In timeline view, put the Play marker on the frame you want to export as a still image and then:

File>Export Movie>Single Frame as BMP or JPEG.