help with thunderstorm effect?

nigel101 · Post by **nigel101** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:40 pm

how do i do a lighting strike? there is a how to on youtube but its too small to see what the guys doing.

any help im on premire pro 1.5

Moriarty · Post by **Moriarty** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:01 am

Heya, not too sure which you tube video you're talking about - and it kind of depends what effect you're looking for.

You might want to try this fairly easy technique - Premiere 1.5 should have a colour matte - I'm using premiere pro 2 so can only tell from that...

Anyhoo - at the toolbar at the top of Premiere, there should be Colour Matte option (I'm not at home at the moment so cant direct you exactly to where this should be - try under tools or whatever) If you choose a white matte a new 'reel' should be added into your bin - just a screen completely white.

Now, all you have to do is add the white matte to your video and add the cross dissolve or cross fade into it. Obviously, the white matte should not be there for more than a second otherwise the lightning will look fake - but it will literally be one of those quick flashes that comes on the screen.

If you're looking to do lightning like, from the sky and being able to see the streaks an all, you might want to check out www.force.net and see how they do their 'jedi force lightning' techniques and then convert it to fir your piece.

Hope this info helps...

kene555 · Post by **kene555** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:43 pm

Premiere Pro has an effect called lightning. Tweak this effect around to get what you want.

nigel101 · Post by **nigel101** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:48 am

kene555 wrote:Premiere Pro has an effect called lightning. Tweak this effect around to get what you want.

ill have a look, do you know what effect folder its under. ill have a look now. thanks
ps link ur website to ur picture.

kene555 · Post by **kene555** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:46 pm

how do i do this?

kene555 · Post by **kene555** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:59 pm

Its under the render folder