Light sabre effects/copyright free music

[Gore]

Can you create a light sabre effect using adobe premier?

Also, where is a good place to download copyright free backround music, it would be good to avoid being sued if at all possible.

[Ornsack]

Premiere is an editing package, so you can't really do much effect work on it apart from simple chroma-key and a few image filters...

There are various other packages that'll do it, 3D Studio can do just about anything once you learn how to use it! The simplest (but a tad time intensive) way of doing it would be to use a Paint Shop Pro trial, and animating the light sabre's frame by frame in the animation workshop.

And just a lil' note which will cause several people to hate me, light sabre effects in home movies is done waaaaay to much

Oh and check out www.theforce.net for help

[Grant]

The force.net has some handy stuff. I will have a look on my home PC I am sure there is some Premiere light sabre effects stuff there somewhere. I will serach and get back to you. I do have heaps of lightsabre sound FX if you need them

[padawanNick]

Personally, I do editing and effects, including sabers, with Media Studio Pro. There are tutorials and examples on my site:
www.hiddenphantom.com

With Premiere, you will also need Photoshop or After Effects. AE can do the effect natively. With Photoshop, you export a filmstrip file from Premiere, add the glows in Photoshop, then reload the filmstrip back into Premiere.
TheForce.net has a few tutorials on this:
www.theforce.net/theater/tutorials.shtml

Have fun!

[dsnynut25]

I have done this effect by freeze framing each frame and painting it. It took about 80 still frames to complete a fluid motion. I did this about 6 months ago.

[Grant]

Yeah it can be a very time consuming job! I had to edit out a smoke whisper from a burning fuse onse in a shot and that was done frame by frame, pixle by pixel!

[Ornsack]

Oh you haven't experienced the world of frame by frame until you start creating animated mattes!!!

I feel sorry for my dad, he's an animator and works frame by frame every day, nightmare!

[Grant]

Just remember the trials and heart ache of the famous monster animator Ray Harryhausen as he animated his multi-headed Hydra for a movie. Sometimes the phone would ring and he would answer it. Upon return he would sometimes have forgotten where he was up to and what had to be moved next!