Light Saber Effect

[DynamiteProductions]

does anyone now how to do the glowing light saber from star wars.... i'm sure its gotta be a chroma key effect...if anyone knows anything about this plz post

[ct_bullet]

there are so many bloody tutorials for this just look around, are you planning on making your own, if so use photshop, or you could nick one

[ct_bullet]

http://www.hiddenphantom.com/Tutorials/ ... SPGlow.htm

[Almondo99]

Make it in Photoshop or whatever then animate it in Premeire or Final Cut.

[ct_bullet]

right, once you've made it in photoshop, how do you put it into Premiere, i can just paste the image into flash but.........

[Almondo99]

I would just drag the image into a video track.

[wsproductions]

If you have Adobe After Effects, follow this tutorial:

http://ryanw.michaelfrisk.com/ryan-w/tu ... abers.html

[Radiate]

Make it in photoshop and drag it into a spare video track in premiere or whatever you have.

[Almondo99]

Make it in Photoshop or whatever then animate it in Premeire or Final Cut.

I would just drag the image into a video track.

It's been said...

[Firestorm]

There's two ways to do it with Adobe Products...


The first, best, fastest and easiest is to use After Effects and make a solid, add a mask to the solid and animate it, and then once you've done that for the footage, copy, blur, and color the layer as you like. I think TheForce.net has a good video tutorial on this... I know there's one somewhere, 'cuz I used it to learn.

If you have Photoshop & Premiere, what you'll have to do if you want a decent effect is export your scene as a filmstrip or several filmstrips, load them up in Photoshop, then do it frame by frame.

[the_funky_monkey]

if you don't have any of those programs then check out EffectsLab DV

it's very easy and powerful, try the demo

[Vor]

i dont mean to be a basher or what not. but check out the whooole forum my goodness this is like the 1000th post of star wars effects.....

[ct_bullet]

haha, basher

[robosays21]

alamv or effectslabdv

[robosays21]

sorry ment alamdv

[freed]

If you cant afford expensive time consuming programs like adobe. How about just downloading this small free file.

http://lsmaker.uw.hu/page.php?main=lsmaker.html#lsmaker

No big programs, No complications. Just import your footage, choose your saber color. Left click where you want to start the blade, Right click where you want to end.

Click Render frame. And boom, 3 clicks and it's done. Do it on every frame and you have a sweet looking light saber.

Hope it helps.
Freed

[Grant]

looks good will check it out

[Almondo99]

I got:
Warning: main(lsmaker.html#lsmaker): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /mnt/ultraweb/l/ls/lsmaker/page.php on line 80

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'lsmaker.html#lsmaker' for inclusion (include_path='.') in /mnt/ultraweb/l/ls/lsmaker/page.php on line 80
Copyright LSMaker 2005.
Warning: gethostbyaddr(): Address is not a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address in /mnt/ultraweb/l/ls/lsmaker/page.php on line 132

Help? Wrong link maybe?

[Grant]

worked for me fine good buddy. The program is really fast to use!

[freed]

open the file rather than saving it, then extract it. If yo continue with problems, i'd be happy to just email you the file.

[freed]

Open the file rather than saving it, then extract it. If you continue with problems, i'd be happy to just email you the file.

[windog]

double posting......the program does look......great!

[Almondo99]

Got onto the site.......found it's .exe......
I have a mac so it won't work. Anyone know how to put a program into Virtual PC?

[windog]

a what now?

[Almondo99]

exe. windows only file. I have Virtual PC but don't know how to get it open.