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Hi does any one know (or know of a link) of how to make a pistol recoil

effect in After Effects and also Premiere. Please get back to me soon.
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OMG! Can we please make stickeys for things like this? This has been talked about several million times, search the forum.
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I know it can be done but I don't know where a tutorial is. It would be better and alot quicker if you just get an electric or gas airsoft gun. That way all you gotta do is add the muzzle flashes.
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rhys wrote:OMG! Can we please make stickeys for things like this? This has been talked about several million times, search the forum.
I just did a search and there’s only 2 forums on pistol recoil and they don’t have any answers :? please help quick.
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Okay, here's the way I do it. I take a screenshot from the spot I want the muzzle flash/recoil to appear. Open this image in PhotoShop (or any other similar layer based application). Here you add the muzzle flash by whatever means you chose, either a pre-made image file or draw it in yourself (I prefer the second method). Next, using one of the selection tools isolate the slide of the gun and copy it to a new layer. Move the slide back an appropriate amount in this new layer, and erase the slide from the bottom layer using the clone tool. You'll also have to paint in a barrel on this bottom layer, but it's not too hard, unless it's an ultra-closeup all it really takes is a black line of the right thickness. So now you've got an image of the gun with the slide recoiled and a muzzle flash. Take this and re-insert it into your footage from the spot you took it, and set it to appear for no more than 2 frames. Add sound effects and a little bit extra brightness for those two frames and you're set!
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thanks dude :?

But is this the only way to do it
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AE is like photoshop with more picture. You can do that exact same thing in AE.
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I did a similar thing in Adobe Premiere. Took a single frame, used Paintshop pro to move the slide and then reinserted in back into Premiere.
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thanks im playing arownd with it now i will post if i need more help
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Here's one I did a while ago: made a new layer with the slide pulled back and just clone brushed the slide away to give the appearence of a barrel. Of course this is high contrast colors so it wouldn't really matter too much on what the barrel is made off. Three frames in total (skip to the end of the video to avoid fluff).

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THAT LOOKED SO REAL
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That looked real nice there barnes. What exactly were the three different frames?
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The three frames were the frames that had the slide blown back. I been playing around with the amount that I should have (one is a no go, you won't notice it): I've been doing an AK47 going in bursts for the charging handle to be blown back, I've been having it go back for two frames (since in my gun range footage fired at semi auto it's blown back three frames), but it's only really noticeable unless you're looking at it.
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maj_barnes wrote:The three frames were the frames that had the slide blown back. I been playing around with the amount that I should have (one is a no go, you won't notice it): I've been doing an AK47 going in bursts for the charging handle to be blown back, I've been having it go back for two frames (since in my gun range footage fired at semi auto it's blown back three frames), but it's only really noticeable unless you're looking at it.

So in other words you drew the recoil.
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Put it simply. I copied the slide into a new layer, and pulled it back. Then erased the slide in front so what slide is left appears to be the barrel.
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i get it thanks dude i ll post if i need more help.
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youngfilmmaker wrote:maybe this will help =]
http://www.deathmonkey.com/tutorial1.html
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Should I look for more tutorials?
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youngfilmmaker wrote:Should I look for more tutorials?

I was kind of talking to the rest of the members but if ya feel like it you will be the filmmaking saint
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Now I just tried doing this, and I got a really cheesy looking result. Currently the only editing tools I have on my computer are the Gimp and Windows Movie Maker. So all of my editing is frame by frame. Does anyone have some footage of an actual pistol firing? I'd like to see how much of the slide you actually see.
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Yeah it's really hard to find and actual gun firing. Does anyone have a clip of this? That would be really usefull :)
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It's just two frames with the slide back.
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This is the second one.




Here is the first




What do you guys think? I like the second better.
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AgentDick wrote: What do you guys think? I like the second better.

Me to



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